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JOHN EVESHAM 



The voyage passed by sea into Aegypt, by John [II. i. 281.] 

 Evesham Gentleman. Anno 1586. 



He 5 of December 1586 we departed 

 from Gravesend in the Tiger of London, 

 wherein was Master under God for the 

 voyage Robert Rickman, and the 21. day 

 at night we came to the Isle of Wight : 

 departing from thence in the morning 

 following we had a faire winde, so that 

 on the 27 day wee came in sight of the rocke of Lisbone, 

 and so sayling along we came in sight of the South Cape, 

 the 29 of the same, and on the morrowe with a Westerly 

 winde we entred the straights : and the second of January 

 being as high as Cape de Gate, we departed from our 

 fleete towards Argier. And the 4 day we arrived at the 

 port of Argier aforesaid, where we staied till the first of 

 March. At which time we set saile towardes a place 

 called Tunis, to the Eastward of Argier 100 leagues, Tunis. 

 where we arrived the 8 of the same. This Tunis is a 

 small citie up 12 miles from the sea, and at the port or 

 rode where shipping doe ride, is a castle or fort called 

 Goletta, sometimes in the handes of the Christians, but 

 now of the Turkes : at which place we remained till the 

 third of Aprill : at which time wee set saile towardes 

 Alexandria, and having sometime faire windes, sometime 

 contrary, we passed on the 12 day betweene Sicilia and 

 Malta (where neere adjoyning hath beene the fort and 

 holde of the knights of the Rhodes) and so the 19 day 

 we fell with the Isle of Candy, and from thence to 

 Alexandria, where we arrived the 27 of April, and there 

 continued till the 5 of October. 



The said citie of Alexandria is an old thing decayed or The descrip- 

 ruinated, having bene a faire and^ great citie neere two Hon of Ale x- 

 miles in length, being all vauted underneath for provision ondria. 

 of fresh water, which water commeth thither but once 

 every yeere, out of one of the foure rivers of paradise 

 (as it is termed) called Nilus, which in September floweth 



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