Treasure Fleet

Treasure fleet can refer to:

  • Spanish treasure fleet
  • Chinese treasure fleets of the Ming Dynasty, and especially the fleet of treasure ships led by Zheng He.

Famous quotes containing the words treasure and/or fleet:

    “A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “On the middle of that quiet floor
    sits a fleet of small black ships,
    square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
    their spars like burned matchsticks.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)