a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1586. 



He brought me to a stone in the streete of the Citie, 

 whereupon S. Marke was beheaded : to the place where 

 S. Katherine died, having there hid herselfe, because she 

 would not marry : also to the Bath of S. Katherine. 



I saw there also Pharaos needle, which is a thing in 

 height almost equall with Pompeys pillar, and is in 

 compasse five fadome, and a halfe, and all of one stone. 



I was brought also to a most brave and daintie Bath, 

 where we washed our selves : the Bath being of marble, 

 and of very curious workemanship. 



The Citie standeth upon great arches, or vawtes, like 

 unto Churches, with mightie pillars of marble, to holde 

 up the foundation : which arches are built to receive 

 the water of the river of Nilus, which is for the use 

 of the Citie. It hath three Castles, and a hundred 

 Churches : but the part that is destroyed of it, is sixe 

 times more then that part which standeth. 



The last day of July, I departed from Alexandria 

 towards Cayro in a passage boate, wherein first I went 

 Rossetto. to Rossetto, standing by the river side, having 13. or 

 14. great churches in it, their building there is of stone 

 and bricke, but as for lodging, there is litle, except we 

 bring it with us. 



From Rossetto wee passed along the river of Nilus, 

 which is so famous in the world, twise as broad as the 

 Thames at London : on both sides grow date trees in 

 great abundance. The people be rude, insomuch that a 

 man cannot traveile without a Janizary to conduct him. 

 The Turkes The time that I stayed in iEgypt was the Turkes 

 LenL and Moores Lent, in all which time they burne lamps 



in their churches, as many as may hang in them : their 

 Lent endureth 40. dayes, and they have three Lents in 

 the yere : during which time they neither eate nor 

 drink in the day time, but all the night they do nothing 

 else. 



Betwixt Rossetto and Cayro there are along the 

 water side three hundred cities and townes, and the 

 length of the way is not above three hundred miles. 



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