A.D. 

 1553. 



The Castle of 

 Torneste. 



Tzvelve turks 

 gaUies at 

 Modon and 

 Coron, and 

 Candia. 



Modon. 

 Coron, 



Cavo Matta- 

 pan. 



Candia. 



GozJ. 



Candia. 

 Cape Spada. 

 C. Salomon. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



patron, and towards evening we set sayle, and had sight 

 of a Castle called Torneste, which is the Turkes, and is 

 ten miles from Zante, it did belong to the Venetians, but 

 they have now lost it, it standeth also on a hill on the 

 sea side in Morea. All that night we bare into the sea, 

 because we had newes at Zante of twelve of the Turkes 

 gallies, that came from Rhodes, which were about 

 Modon, Coron, and Candia, for which cause we kept 

 at the sea. 



The second of August we had no sight of land, but 

 kept our course, and about the third watch the winde 

 scanted, so that we bare with the shore, and had sight 

 of Modon and Coron. 



The third we had sight of Cavo Mattapan, and all 

 that day by reason of contrary windes, which blew some- 

 what hard, we lay a hull untill morning. 



The fourth we were still under the sayd Cape, and 

 so continued that day, and towardes night there grewe 

 a contention in the ship amongst the Hollanders, and it 

 had like to have bene a great inconvenience, for we had 

 all our weapons, yea even our knives taken from us 

 that night. 



The fift, we sayled by the Bowline, and out of the 

 toppe we had sight of the Hand of Candia, and towardes 

 noone we might see it plaine, and tov/ards night the 

 winde waxed calme. 



The sixt toward the breake of day we saw two small 

 Hands called Gozi, and towards noone we were betweene 

 them : the one of these Hands is fifteene miles about, 

 and the other 10 miles. \n those Hands are nourished 

 store of cattell for butter and cheese. There are to the 

 number of fiftie or sixtie inhabitants, which are Greeks, 

 and they live chiefly on milke and cheese. The Hand 

 of Candia is 700 miles about, it is in length, from Cape 

 Spada, to Cape Salomon, 300 miles, it is as they say, 

 able to make one hundred thousand fighting men. We 

 sayled betweene the Gozi, and Candia, and they are dis- 

 tant from Candia 5 or 6 miles. The Candiots are strong 



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