ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1593- 



A description of a Voiage to Constantinople and 

 Syria, begun the 21. of March 1593. and 

 ended the 9. of August, 1595. wherein is 

 shewed the order of delivering the second 

 Present by Master Edward Barton her ma- 

 jesties Ambassador, which was sent from her 

 Majestie to Sultan Murad Can, Emperour of 

 Turkie. 



E set saile in the Ascension of London, 

 a new shippe very well appointed, of 

 two hundred and three score tunnes 

 (whereof was master one William 

 Broadbanke, a provident and skilfull 

 man in his facultie) from Gravesend 

 the one and twentie of March 1593. 

 And upon the eight of Aprill folowing wee passed the 

 streights of Gibraltar, and with a small Westerne gale, 

 the 24. of the same, we arrived at Zante an Hand 

 under the Venetians. The fourth of May wee departed, 

 and the one and twentie wee arrived at Alexandretta in 

 Cilicia in the very bottome of the Mediterrane sea, a 

 roade some 25. miles distant from Antioch, where our 

 marchants land their goods to bee sent for Aleppo. 

 [II. 1. 304.] From thence wee set saile the fift of June, and by 

 contrary windes were driven upon the coast of Cara- 

 mania into a road neere a litle Hand where a castle 

 standeth, called Castle Rosso, some thirtie leagues to 

 the Eastwards of the Rhodes, where after long search 

 for fresh water, we could finde none, until certaine 

 poore Greekes of the Hand brought us to a well where 

 we had 5 or 6 tuns. That part of the country next 

 the sea is very barren & full of mountains, yet found 

 we there an olde tombe of marble, with an epitaph of 

 an ancient Greeke caracter, by antiquity neere worne out 

 and past reading ; which to the beholders seemed a 

 monument of the greatnesse of the Grecian monarchy. 



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