Travels into the Levant. 
Part I. 
CHAP. XII. 
V 
Of the IJIe of Zia. 
TVefday^ November the Ninth, the weather promififig fair, after we had 
payed the Conful a Piaftre or peice of Eight,for Anchorage, we weighed 
abput noon ; but being abroad, we found that the wind was not good as we had 
imagined it was; for it fhifted to and agen from Eaft to North, and was fo 
eafie, that we made no way. Wednefday^xht Tenth of November., we were' 
becaimed till the evening, when, to our great joy, we had a Gale from South- 
weft,butinthe night-time it chang'd about to >A^efl:,with which we Hill kept 
on our courfe: It lafted till Thurfday morning,the Eleventh of November^)NhQn, 
about eight a clock, we were becalmed until the evening, that the wind turned 
eaftcrly, then north eafterly, and at length in the night-time, it turned about 
to the north, which tofled us a little*, fo that fearing worfe V\/eather, werefolved 
to come to an 'anchor at Zia^ being very near to it. Friday morning the 
TwelfthjWe made a fail, which coming nearer,we knew to be the Reer- Admiral 
of ^ÉKice, that wasaFlemiih bottom: When he had put out the Colours of 
St. Markjy we ftiewed ours, and then he faluted us with two Guns : We having 
returned the falute, by firing five Petrera's , he gave us a fhot without a 
Bullet , to let us know he had a mind to fpeak with us , and fo went to 
Hay for us at the Port of Zia^ whither we followed him ; we there found ano- 
ther Dutch Ship of the re«ftz4» Fleet, both which were going with fuécours 
ioï Candie. It is a hundred and threefcore miles from Cm^o to Z/4, which 
has a Harbour fecure from all Winds, the entry into it being at the Weft 
North-weft fide. Saturday the Thirteenth of November^ we went to the-Town, 
■which is about five miles from the Port, with a defign to buy frefli provilïons 
there; we armed ourfelvesfor fear of fome ambufii, which is a common thing 
in that Country ^ and we were told that a few days before, a Turkifh Galliot 
came in the night-time to the Harbour, and having feen fliipsin it, went and 
skulked behind a Rock-, the Turks in the mean time having landed, put them- 
felvesin ambulh, andfurprifed thofe of the other Vefiels, who were come on 
ihore to walk and fifh j amongft whom was a Captain of a Ihip, being unarmed 
as the reft were, and carry ed them all ofFin view of the (hips, which could give 
them no aid. Having then prepared our felves againft the worft, we took a way 
that we thought tobe the fhorteft,to the Town,but which was indeed the worft 
way and furtheft about : We were forced, to clamber up and down three or 
four Hills that were fo high and rugged, being nothing but Rocks full of Rufhes, 
that our hands were as well employed as our feet: At length, after a great 
deal of trouble, we came to the place, but when we thought of nothing, but of 
making merry there a ]ittle,we faw three (hips out atSea,which having advanced 
to the mouth of the Port, and finding that there were Veffels in it, ftood 
away,as if they intended to put into Port,at Spm^ Longa^ an Ifland towards Ne- 
gro^ont: This put our Captain into a great perplexity,vvho not knowing what to 
think ofthem,told us, that if any miichance happened to his Vefl^el,he would be 
prefent there himfelf •• That, made us prefently return back again by the good 
way, which the Inhabitants (hew'd us; and, becaufe we faw no more ofthefe 
Ships, we concluded they muft belong to Malta-, and that they would not put 
into the Port, becaufe they had feen Venetian Ships there, which made them 
believe, there could be no great ftore offrefh Provifions left for them. Monday 
the Fifteenth, the Conful, having given us a vifit on Board our Ship, took us 
with them to the Town, and entertained us in his houfe at Dinner: It is 
a great Town , containing at leaft feven hundred houfes j bntthey told us 
there was not above four hundred of them inhabited, and that the other 
three hundred, had been abandoned fince the War of Candia : Thefe houfes are 
only built offtones of the Rock and Earth, and are ranked like the Benches of 
an 
