Part I. Travels into the Lev an t. 
an Amphitheater, being all built one at the back of the roof of another, upon 
the fide of the hill, and in that manner making ten or twelve ranks, fo that 
there are no other ftreets but the roofs of houfes, which are flat and joyn to 
one another, infomuch that at one view one may fee all the houfes of the 
• Town. There is a Caftle there, of a great height, which though now it be 
ruinous, was neverthelefs fo ftrong, that as I was told, fome years ago, 
Threefcore Turks held it out a whole month, with two Mufquets only, againft 
the Venetinn Army, under the Command of General Thomas Adorofm , and 
yielded not till they came to want water. This Ifland which in ancient times 
was called Ceo^ and Cea, and is faid to have been heretofore part of the Ifle of Ceos. cui 
Ne^ropom; is fhaped like a Horfe-fhoe, and is fifty mile in circumferece ; the 
foil of it is pretty good, producing Corn, Wine, Grafs and a great many 
other good things-,its harbour is full of Fifh, which we often made tryal of with 
our Nets: The Inhabitants pay yearly in Caradge or Tribute three tboufand four 
hundred Piaflres to the Turks, and two thouiand fix hundred to the Venetians, 
befides the extortions and robberies they meet with j fo that the Inhabitants 
being thereby ruined and opprelFed, many of them are forced to forfake their 
houfes and country. The Women are Apparelled in a falhion that feems to 
be rude and clownifh, but which becomes tall women very well.* They have 
coats that reach down to their knees, and of them fix or fevcnone over ano- 
ther, which make them look very bigg, their fmock appearing half a foot 
lower j they wear white cloth ftockins, and on their head, a kind of veil that 
alfo covers their Breafts, which they turn as they pleafe After all, the Inha- 
bitants of this Ifland are good people, and deferve to be pitied, becaufe of 
the miferies they fuffer both from Chriftians and Turks. 
C H A P. XIII. 
Of the Ifle of Andra^ and of our Ship running 
a ground. 
TVefday, the Sixtenth of Nowmher, the wind being a little abated, we put 
out about eight of the clock at night, hoping to find the wind fair at 
Sea ^ but Wednefday morning the feventeenth of I^Jovejnber^ it blew fo llrong a 
North Wind, that we were obliged to bear away to Ille of Andra^ where we Ifle oîÂn^Ui 
came toan Anchor, at two in the afternoon. We found five Venetian fliips 
there; who fo foon as they underfl:ood from us, that there was fome fufpition 
ofa Plague iu Malta \ they difcharged us from having any communication 
with them or thofe of the Ifland Though this prohibition hindred me from 
getting any knowledge of this Ifle by my own means, yet I fliall here relate 
what I learnt of it from thofe who have been upon it, as alfo from a manufcript 
Relation that hath come into my hands fince. The lûe of Jndra^ in ancient 
time Andros^h threefcore miles from Zm, it is fourfcore miles in circuit, and 
is reckoned the mofl: fertile Ifland of all the Archipelago, as indeed, it is fo in 
an things, efpeciallyin Silk, wherein the Inhabitants, who are about fix thon- 
fand fou-ls. Trade at Chio, and other Places *, with Backs, that are made in 
Andra^ and make forty thoufand Piaflres profit of it a year. It hath a Town 
near the Sea, which contains not above two hundred Houfes ; the Port of it 
is pretty good,and the South Wind blows a thwart it; there is an uninhabited 
Caille ftill to be feen, upon a little Rock in the Sea, hard by it. There are 
befides fixty Villages, fcattered here and there in feveral places of the Ifland, 
of which the mofl: confiderable are Arm and Amolacos^ that are inhabited by ^f„i^ 
the Amantes or Albanians, to the number of twelve hundred fouls, all of the Amolmsi 
«jm^ Church, and differing in Language and Cuftoras ; a rude fort of Peo- 
ple 
