A.D. 



1553' 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



Monte de la 

 Croce. 



sixe spannes broad, and seven spannes high, which they 

 say was found under ground. It is as faire a stone as 

 ever I have seene. 



The seventh day we rid to a Greeke Frierie halfe a 

 mile without the towne. It is a very pleasaunt place, 

 and the Friers feasted us according to their abilitie. 

 These Friers are such as have bene Priests, and their 

 wives dying they must become Friers of this place, and 

 never after eate flesh, for if they do, they are deprived 

 from saying masse : neither, after they have taken upon 

 them this order, may they marry againe, but they may 

 keepe a single woman. These Greekish Friers are very 

 continent and chast, and surely I have seldome seen 

 (which I have well noted) any of them fat. 



The 8. day we returned to Arnacho, and rested there. 

 The 9. after midnight my company rid to the hill called 

 Monte de la Croce (but I not disposed would not go) 

 which hill is from Arnacho 15. Italian miles. Upon the 

 sayd hill is a certaine crosse, which is, they say, a holy 

 Crosse. This Crosse in times past did by their report 

 of the Island, hang in the ayre, but by a certaine earth- 

 quake, the crosse and the chappell it hung in, were 

 overthrowen, so that never since it would hang againe 

 in the aire. But it is now covered with silver, and hath 

 [II. i. no.] 3. drops of our lordes blood on it (as they say) and 

 there is in the midst of the great crosse, a little crosse 

 made of the crosse of Christ, but it is closed in the 

 silver, you must (if you will) beleeve it is so, for see 

 it you cannot. This crosse hangeth nowe by both endes 

 in the wall, that you may swing it up and downe, in 

 token that it did once hang in the aire. This was told 

 mee by my fellow pilgrimes, for I sawe it not. 



The 10. at night we went aboord by warning of the 

 patron: and the 11. in the morning we set saile, and 

 crept along the shore, but at night we ankered by reason 

 of contrary windes. 



The 12. we set saile toward Limisso, which is from 

 Salines 50. miles, and there we went on land that night. 



Limisso, 



