TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in English. You must translate it to Xhosa in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.
PROBLEM: The Americans on the other hand went in for a triple mounting and carried nine guns in their ships.

SOLUTION: AmaMelika kwelinye icala angena kwisithathu sonyuso alayisha ithoba lemipu kwinqanawa zawo .

PROBLEM: The star-like painted wind-rose, with its 32 points, thus became the 'fly' of the compass which always pointed true.

SOLUTION: Ezi zazijongeke ngokwenkwenkwezi zazipeyintwe njengomoya werozi, zinamashumi amathathu enesibini wezalathiso, zathi zaba zezona zibizwa ngokubhabha ikhampasi ezazisoloko zilathe inyanisa.

PROBLEM: So it is clearly an advantage to reeve the spring from well forward in the bows.

SOLUTION:
Ngako oko kuyanceda ukudlulisa isipringi phakathi kwamaqhina okuxhasa inqanawa ezantsi.