Task: Translation
Input (English): It was not until the middle of the eighteenth century that navigating officers in the Navy or on an East Indiaman competent enough as mathematicians.
Output (Xhosa): Yayingeyiyo de kwayinkulungwane yeshumi elinesibhozo apho igosa lomkhosi wamanzi okanye kwimpuma yamaIndiya elukhuphiswano ngokwaneleyo kwizibalo.