* Alternatively: (We can easily determine the size of that vessel, but just by looking at it we can’t really figure out the value of its cargo.) Whose at the beginning of line 8 can be read to refer back either to star (as in the paraphrase above), or bark (as in the paraphrase here). The former is attractive because his height be taken at the end of line 8 refers to astronomy: “to take a star’s height” with a sextant is to navigate a ship by observing the constellations. But worth, in its sense of monetary value, seems to fit better with a ship’s cargo than with a celestial body. Scholars continue to argue for both interpretations.