His embark- 

 ing at Venice 

 for Jerusalem 



AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1581. 



The excesse of As for the women of Venice, they be rather monsters, 

 the women of ^-j^^j^ women. Every Shoomakers or Taylors wife will 

 have a gowne of silke, and one to carie up her traine, 

 wearing their shooes very neere halfe a yard high from 

 the ground : if a stranger meete one of them, he will 

 surely thinke by the state that she goeth with, that he 

 meeteth a Lady. 



I departed from this Citie of Venice, upon Mid- 

 sommer day, being the foure and twentieth of June, 

 and thinking that the ship would the next day depart, 

 I stayed, and lay a shippeboord all night, and we were 

 made beleeve from time to time, that we should this 

 day, and that day depart, but we taried still, till the 

 fourteenth of July, and then with scant winde wee set 

 sayle, and sayled that day and that night, not above 

 fiftie Italian miles : and upon the sixteene day at night, 

 the winde turned flat contrary, so that the Master 

 knewe not what to doe : and about the fift houre of the 

 night, which we reckon to be about one of the clocke 

 after midnight, the Pilot descried a saile, and at last 

 perceived it to be a Gallie of the Turkes, whereupon 

 we were in great feare. 



The Master being a wise fellowe, and a good sayler, 

 beganne to devise howe to escape the danger, and to 

 loose litle of our way : and while both he, and all of us 

 were in our dumps, God sent us a merry gale of winde, 

 that we ranne threescore and tenne leagues before it 

 was twelve a clocke the next day, and in sixe dayes after 

 we were seven leagues past Zante. And upon Munday 

 morning, being the three and twentie of the same 

 moneth, we came in the sight of Candia which day the 

 winde came contrary, with great blasts, and stormes, untill 

 the eight and twentie of the same moneth : in which 

 time, the Mariners cried out upon me, because I was 

 an English man, & sayd, I was no good Christian, and 

 wished that I were in the middest of the Sea, saying, 

 that they, and the shippe, were the worse for me. I 

 answered, truely it may well be, for I thinke my selfe the 



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