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Part I, 
After this Commander, comes a Page of the Great Mailer's, carrying in one 
hand a Sword \ and in the other a Dagger, which the King of Sfatn fent as a 
Prefent to the Religion^ after that the Turks drew off, both which are fee 
with Precious-ftones of very great vahie. Being come to the great Porch of 
St, Johnh^ they enter the Church, and advance near to the Altar ; then the. 
Commander who carries the Colours, falutes the Holy Sacrament with them 
three times ; and after that, turning towards the Great Mafîer, he falutes 
him in the fam.e manner, and then takes his place, below his Eminence, on 
one hand of hifi , with the Page near to him, who prefents the Sword and 
Dagger to the Great Mafter ; and he holds them naked, with the points 
upward, all the while the Gofpel is a finging ; which being ended, he gives 
them back to the Page. Mafs being over, they wait upon his Eminence to his 
Palace, where the Commander falutes him thrice again with the Colours j 
and then they return to the Inn, where the Commander who carried the Co- 
lours makes a great Feaft to the whole Inn, and to his Friends. After Dinner, 
they have Races of the Pdlto^ and other Publick Rejoycings, which conclude the 
Feftival. ,et 
CHAP. X. 
Defarture from Malta _/Sr Conftantinople. 
Waited five inonths at Jl^dta for M^nfienr d' Herhdot^ but his Affairs taking 
him quite off of the Voyage which we had propofed, he gave me notice of 
it ; wherefore I refolved to be gone ^ k\ having found a PafTage for Conftami- 
nople^WcùMalta cnThnr [day ^iheFomîh oï Ncuembe? ^lô^-^M Nine a clock in the 
St. morning, being on bosrd the St, /vU.rg.\rtt^ commanded t)y Captain Thilif Mar- 
tin de Ctudadj which cam^e from Leec -K : T'ivs Ship, that was about eight and 
thirty years oId,was a good faiier, and very lucky at Sea ; ftie was manned with 
two and thirty Seamen, and carried fix Iron great Guns,and eight Brak Petrera's, 
befides a great many fmaller hte Arms. We wehc in confort with Captain 
^^/;rW(y yl^/rfr^/w, cur Captain's Brother, whofe Ship was called the HolyGhofl-^ 
manned with thirty fix Seamen, and carrying five Iron Guns, and eight Vetrerds : 
There was a Polaque of Ci^:d.tdj called the St. Margaret, in company with us 
alfo; and file had on board four and twenty Men, two Guns, and fix Iron Pe- 
trera's, the Captain's name being James Feamner : This Polaqae failed very 
v>/ell, but the Veffel of Captain ^Anthony Martin lagg'd always a Hern j which 
made us lofe above ten miles a way day j becaufe we lay by for him, when 
he was at any confiderable diflance a item. We had a good Wefl and by 
North Wind; which, on FrzW^_y morning, the Fifth of iVoww^er, fhifted about 
to South-well, and the night following, after a great Horm of Rain, turned 
North, but fo ealle, that we made but very little way. Sâturday, the Sixth of 
^ November, it frefhened towards the Evening, and brought us on a pace ; but 
\ the more we advanced, the more we were in fear of meeting Ships of Tr/p/y 
The Ifleof l\\z\^t oï Sape>iz^a% which we made account to pafs next day ^ and ne- 
Sdftsni^. verthelefs, we fafely psfs'd it before wewereawarej forySW.?)/ morning the 
Seventh of November, when we thought ourfelves to be a great many miles 
fhort of the Hie of Safienz.a, according to the reckoning we had kept, we per- 
CapeofAfa- c^^^*^^ ^^"^^ ^'^'^^ already weathered the Cz\)toi M.itafan, which is above 
tapm. feventy miles beyond the Ifle of Sapicnza : The caufe of this miflake was, that 
A miftake in think our Ship made above eight miles an hour, when fhe made 
reckoning' above ten^ becaufe, befides that the Wind was fair, the Currents of the Gulf 
Aqother mi- of ^m'ce made US run a head apace. We committed alfo another errour, of 
ftakfe in the no lefs confequence than the former ; for we intended to have held our courfe 
courle. above ninety miles offof the Iflc oiS.^.pcnz.a and Qz^z M^ttafan^ betwixt Cerigo 
and 
