The fact that sailing directions surviving from about 1250 were given to half-points (that is, one sixty-fourth) of the compass of the horizon, suggests strongly that a boxed compass with fly was by then already available, at least to the sailors in the Mediterranean.
Inyani yayiyeyokuba omatiloshe kwindoda yokuphila yayisuka kwiwaka linamakhulu amabini anamashumi banikwa icala lokwalatha (elingangekhulu linamashumi mathandathu enesine) zekampasi zolundi ngoku cebisa amandla etyesi gekhampasi elineziva ezibhabhayo ngoko zasizilungiselelwe kwesezikhona komatiloshe base Mediterranean.