RICHARD WRAG ad. 



1594. 

 mosale or shippe bound for Sidon ; and passing thorow 

 Propontis, having Salimbria with Heraclia most pleasantly 

 situated on the right hand, and Proconesus now called 

 Marmora on the left, we came to Gallipoly, and so by Gallipoly. 

 Hellespont, betweene the two castles before named called 

 Sestos and Abydos, famous for the passages made there 

 both by Xerxes and great Alexander, the one into Thracia, 

 the other into Asia, and so by the Sigean Promontory, 

 now called Cape Janitzary, at the mouth of Hellespont 

 upon Asia side, where Troy stood, where are yet ruines Troy. 

 of olde walles to be seene, with two hils rising in a pira- 

 midall forme, not unlikely to be the tombs of Achilles 

 and Ajax. From thence we sailed along, having Tenedos 

 and Lemnos on the right hand, and the Trojan fields on 

 the left: at length we came to Mitylen and Sio long Zio. 

 time inhabited by the Genoueses, but now under the 

 Turke. The Hand is beautified with goodly buildings 

 and pleasant gardens, and aboundeth with fruits, wine, 

 and the gum masticke. From thence sailing alongst the 

 gulfe of Ephesus with Nicaria on the right hand, Samos 

 and Smirna on the left, we came to Patmos, where S. Patmos. 

 John wrote the Revelation. The Hand is but small, 

 not above five miles in compasse : the chiefe thing it 

 yeeldeth is corn : it hath a port for shipping, and in it is 

 a monastery of Greekish Caloieros. From thence by Cos Cot. 

 (now called Lango) where Hipocrates was borne : & pass- 

 ing many other Hands and rocks, we arrived at Rhodes, Rhodes. 

 one of the strongest and fairest cities of the East : here we 

 stayed three or foure dayes ; and by reason of a By 

 which went in the ship to Paphos in Cyprus, who 

 used me with all kindnesse, I went about the city, and 

 tooke the view of all : which city is still with all the 

 houses and walles thereof maintained in the same order 

 as they tooke it from the Rhodian knights. Over the 

 doores of many of the houses, which be strongly built 

 of stone, do remaine undefaced, the armes of England, [II. i. 309.] 

 France, Spaine, and many other Christian knights, as 

 though the Turkes in the view thereof gloried in the 



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