a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1594- 



taking of all Christendome, whose armes there they 

 beholde. From thence we sailed to Paphos an olde 

 ruinous towne standing upon the Westerne part of 

 Cyprus, where S. Paul in the Acts converted the gover- 



Sidon. nor. Departing hence, we came to Sidon, by the Turks 



called Saytosa, within tenne or twelve miles of the place 



Ezek. 26. 5. where Tirus stood, which now being eaten in by the 

 sea, is, as Ezekiel prophesied, a place for the spreading 

 out of a net. Sidon is situated in a small bay at the 

 foot of mount Libanus, upon the side of an hill look- 

 ing to the North : it is walled about, with a castle 

 nigh to the sea, and one toward the land which is 

 ruinated, but the walle thereof standeth. Some halfe 

 mile up toward the mountaine be certaine ruines of 

 buildings, with marble pillars, remaining : heere for three 

 dayes we were kindly entertained of the captaine of the 

 castle : and in a small barke we sailed from hence along 

 the shore to Tripoli, & so to Alexandretta, where the 

 24 of August we arrived. From thence with a Vene- 

 tian caravan we went by land to Aleppo, passing by 

 Antioch, which is seated upon the side of an hill, whose 

 walles still stand with 360 turrets upon them, and 

 neere a very great plaine which beareth the name of the 

 city, thorow which runneth the river Orontes, in Scrip- 



Akppo. ture called Farfar. In Aleppo I stayed untill February 



following; in this city, as at a mart, meete many nations 

 out of Asia with the people of Europe, having con- 

 tinuall traffike and interchangeable course of marchandise 

 one with another : the state and trade of which place, 

 because it is so well knowen to most of our nation I 

 omitte to write of. The 27 of February I departed 

 from Aleppo, and the fifth of March imbarked my 

 selfe at Alexandretta in a great ship of Venice called 

 the Nana Ferra, to come for England. The 14 we put 

 into Salino in Cyprus, where the ship staying many 

 dayes to lade cotton wooll, and other commodities, in 

 the meane time accompanied with M. William Barret 

 my countrey man, the master of the ship a Greeke, 



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Antioch. 



