A.D. 



1583- 



Sapientia. 



Modon. 



C. Matapan. 



Cerigo. 

 C. Malio. 

 Menelaus. 



Bellapoln. 

 Both Milos. 



Falconara. 



Antem'ila. 



Fermenia, 



Zea. 



Negroponte. 



Andri. 



Psara. Sarafo. 



Sigra^ a port 

 ifi Metelin. 



Porto Delfin. 

 The city of 

 Ch'io. 



J By, 



Ermiriy or 

 Customer. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



the 4 we were thwart of an Hand called Sapientia. There 

 standeth a falre Towne and a Castle on the maine over 

 against it, called Modon. The same day by reason 

 of contrary windes we put backe againe to Prodeno, 

 because we could not fetch Sapientia. The ninth we 

 came from thence, and were as farre as Sapientia againe. 

 The tenth we were as farre shot as Cavo Matapan ; and 

 that day we entred the Archipelago, and passed thorow 

 betweene Cerigo and Cavo Malio. This Cerigo is an 

 Hand where one Menelaus did sometimes reigne, from 

 whome was stollen by Paris faire Helena, and carried 

 to Troy, as ancient Recordes doe declare. The same 

 day we had sight of a little Hand called Bellapola, and did 

 likewise see both the Milos, being Hands in the Archi- 

 pelago. The 1 1 in the morning we were hard by an 

 Iland called Falconara, and the Hand of Antemila. The 



1 2 in the morning we were betweene Fermenia and Zea, 

 being both Hands. That night wee were betweene 

 Negroponte and Andri, being likewise Hands. The 



13 in the morning we were hard by Psara and Sarafo, 

 being Hands nine or tenne miles from Chio, and could 

 not fetch Chio. So we put roome with a port in Metelin 

 called Sigra, and about nine of the clocke at night we 

 ankered there. The 15 we came from thence, the six- 

 teenth we put into Porto Delfi. The port is 9 English 

 miles to the Northward of the City of Chio, (and it may 

 be twelve of their miles) this night we stayed in the sayd 

 port, being in the Hand of Chio. Then went our Mar- 

 chant and one or two with him to the City of Chio. And 

 when the By, who is the governour of the Hand (and is 

 in their language a Duke) had communed with the 

 Marchant, and those that were with him, and understood 

 of our arrivall within his dominion, the day following he 

 armed his gallies, and came to welcome our Ambassadour, 

 accompanied with the Ermine, that is, the Kings 

 Customer, and also the French Consull, with divers of 

 the chiefe of the City, and offered him as much friendship 

 as he could or would desire : for he did offer to attend 



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