WILLIAM HAREBORNE'S AMBASSAGE ad. 



1583. 

 upon us, and towe us if need were to the Castles. The 

 21 we departed from thence, and that day passed by 

 port Sigra againe. This Hand of Metelin is part of Asia, 

 and is neere to Natolia. The 22 we passed by a head 

 land called Baberno, and is also in Asia. And that day at Babcmo. 

 night we passed by the Isle of Tenedo, part of Asia, and Tenedo. 

 by another Hand called Maure. And the same day we Manre. 

 passed thorow the straights of Galipoli, and by the GalipolL 

 Castles, and also by the Towne of GaHpoli it selfe, which 

 standeth in Europa. And that night we were in sight of 

 Marmora which is neere Natolia, and part of Asia. The Marmora. 

 23 in the morning we were thwart of Araclia, and that Aradia. 

 night we ankered in Silauria. The 24 in the morning SUauria. 

 the Marchant and the Pilot were set on land to goe to 

 the City about the Ambassadours businesse, but there 

 they could not land because we had the winde faire. 

 That place of some is called Ponte grande, and is foure Pontegrande. 

 and twenty miles on this side of Constantinople, and 

 because of the winde, they followed in the skiffe untill 

 they came to a place called Ponte picola, and there Ponte plcola. 

 is a little bridge, it standeth eight Turkish miles 

 from Constantinople, there the Marchant and the Pilot 

 landed. At this bridge is an house of the great Turkes 

 with a faire Garden belonging unto it, neere the which 

 is a point called Ponta S. Stephano, and there the P°^*^ ^• 

 shippe ankered that day. The 26 day the ship came ^^^P^^^°- 

 to the seven Towers, and the 27 we came neerer. The 

 29 there came three gallies to bring us up further : [II. i. 169.] 

 and when the shippe came against the great Turks The arrivdl 

 palace, we shot off all our ordinance to the number of ^f^^^^^^^^^i 

 foure and thirty pieces. Then landed our Ambassa- op/^J ^^^^"' 

 dour, and then we discharged foure and twenty pieces, 

 who was received with more then fifty or threescore 

 men on horsebacke. The ninth of April he presented The Ambassa- 

 the great Bassa with sixe clothes, foure Cannes of silver ^our gtveth a 

 double gilt, and one piece of fine holland, and to three ^'^reTZsfa, 

 other Bassas, that is to say, the second Bassa, which 

 is a gelded man, and his name is Mahomet Bassa, to 



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