The instrument itself, apart from improved workmanship, had changed little since Elizabethan days, but the sextant had come into use for the ancillary observations by that time.
Isixhobo sayo kwinxenye ngokuphucuka kwendoda yenqanawa etshintshe kancinci ngeentsuku zikaElizabeth kodwa izakusetyenziswa ngokujonga ngeloxesha.