A.D, 



1553- 



[II. i. 109.] 



Cornarij a 

 familie of 

 Venice mar- 

 led to king 

 Jaques. 



No vitailes 

 must be sold 

 out of the cifj 

 of Famagusta. 



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was buried in the yere of Christ one thousand foure 

 hundred seventie & three, and had to wife one of the 

 daughters of Venice, of the house of Cornari, the which 

 family at this day hath great revenues in this Island, and 

 by means of that mariage the Venetians chalenge the 

 kingdom of Cyprus. 



The first of October in the morning, we went to see 

 the reliefe of the watches. That done, we went to one 

 of the Greekes Churches to see a pot or Jarre of stone, 

 which is sayd to bee one of the seven Jarres of water, 

 the which the Lord God at the mariage converted into 

 wine. It is a pot of earth very faire, white enamelled, 

 and fairely wrought upon with drawen worke, and hath 

 on either side of it, instead of handles, eares made in 

 fourme as the Painters make angels wings, it was about 

 an elle high, and small at the bottome, with a long 

 necke and correspondent in circuit to the bottome, the 

 belly very great and round, it holdeth full twelve 

 gallons, and hath a tap-hole to drawe wine out thereat, 

 the Jarre is very auncient, but whether it be one of them 

 or no, I know not. The aire of Famagusta is very 

 unwholesome, as they say, by reason of certaine marish 

 ground adjoyning unto it. They have also a certaine 

 yeerely sicknesse raigning in the same towne, above all 

 the rest of the Island : yet neverthelesse, they have it 

 in other townes, but not so much. It is a certaine 

 rednesse and paine of the eyes, the which if it bee not 

 quickly holpen, it taketh away their sight, so that yeerely 

 almost in that towne, they have about twentie that lose 

 their sight, either of one eye or both, and it commeth 

 for the most part in this moneth of October, and the last 

 moneth : for I have met divers times three and foure 

 at once in companies, both men and women. Their 

 living is better cheape in Famagusta then in any other 

 place of the Island, because there may no kinde of 

 provision within their libertie bee solde out of the Citie. 



The second of October we returned to Arnacho, where 

 wee rested untill the sixt day. This towne is a pretie 



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