6 Travels into L e v a n t. - Part I. 
ple,any without difcipline. Near to thefe Villages, there is a Monafiry of sn 
hundred Monks, called Tagia, built in form of a Fort ; with a Church, very 
well adorned, though fmall, and ferved by thefe Monks, who live in extreme 
ignorance. They entertain Travellers all the while they ftay there j and, 
when they depart, they give them Provilions to carry them home to their own 
- Countrey ; for they have great Revenues. There are belides, fix other little 
Monafteries, with a few Religious in them. There is a great number of Greeks 
Churches in the Ifland, which are all under the government and difcipline of 
a Gmit Bilhop. The Latins have alfo a Bilhop there, who, on Corpns Chnfti- 
day, carries the Holy Sacrament in Proceflion all over the Town ; at which 
there is a great concourfe of People, both G"?-fe^i and Latins-^ and, when the 
Bilhop palfes along the ftreets, all the people proftrate themfelves, fpread 
Carpets, Flowers, Herbs, and other odoriferous things ; and lye fo thick 
upon the ground, that the Bifhop cannot pafs without treading upon them : 
The Cathedral of the Bifhop of the Lattn Church, is dedicated to the Apoflle 
St. Andrew ; it is pretty neat, but hath no great Revenue. There are fix 
Churches bcfides in the Town, of which there is one dedicated to Sr. Bernard, 
and held by the Capucines ; who eafe the Bifhop very much, by their Preaching^ 
hearing Confeffions, and by their School, to which all the G>-ff^ Children 
come nay, fome are fent thither from Athens to learn. The Turks have 
the difpofal of the Temporal Affairs, and there are feveral Families of them 
upon the Ifland, who are very uneafie Niighbours to t\\t Greeks ?ir[<\ Latins. 
There is a very pleafant Valley in this Ifland, called by the Inhabitants Menites 
with plenty of frelh Springs and Fruit-trees in it j befides about forty Mills' 
that grind Corn for the People of the Town and circumjacent Villages, which 
is very commodious : The Water which drives thefe Mills,coraes from a Spring 
in a Church, called Madonna del cumtdo ; and this Water runs in Brooks 
through the Valley ; and under Trees, fallen of themfelves, fo that they feem 
to have been bent fo artificially ^ and, indeed, a Painter cannot reprefent a 
more lovely and pleafant Valley in Landskip. In the Plain, at the end of this 
Valley, thejefuites have a Garden, full of Fruit-trees of all forts, which render 
them a confiderable Revenue yearly : There they have their Houfe, and their 
Church, cSiVità Sx.. Veneranda. This Ifland might be called very lovely, if the 
Houfes of it were better built, and the Air good, but it is very bad, and fo is 
the Water of the Town. The Inhabitants of the Ifle oï Andra are civil 
and their Language is more literal than the Language of the other Greeks ; their 
Women are Chait, and fpeak well, but their Aparrel is very unbecoming. 
The Inhabitants of the Town are not very laborious, love good chear and di- 
verfions, but the Peafants are more induftrious j they .make very white wicker 
BasketSjWhich are ufed all over the Archipelago : As to their Food,they eat fome- 
times Goats flefh, though in the Woods and Hills they have good Venifon and 
wild Fowl, as Hares, Coneys, Partridges, and the like ; but they have neither 
Huntfmen nor Fowling-pieces: Their Sea affords no Filh, and is, as to that 
v;orfe than the Sea of Genoa. They have neither Phyfician nor Chyrurgeon, 
but, when they fall fick, betake themfelves to the Mercy of God. This Ifle 
Family of Sa- belonged heretofore to the Family of the SanMi, who had it in Dowry from 
the Family of Zen, of which were the Dukes of Naxia in thofe times. It was 
into this Ifland th^t Themifiodes* was fent from Athens, to raife money ; who 
having entered into conference with thofe of the Ifland, X.o\^i\[^m,Gemlemnof 
Andra's, 1 bring you two Gods, the One of Perfwafion, and the Other of Force ^~ 
chitfeyon which of the two yon pleafe : To which they anfwered. And we will pre- 
fent you with two Goddejfes, the One Poverty, and the Other Impojfibility ; take which 
of the twoyoHpleafe : Which was the caufe that the Athenians befieged and took 
it. We lay at an anchor before ^Wr/ï, from ^FfaWt/^^^ the Seventh, Fri- 
day the Nineteenth of November, when the laft Quarter of the Moon began, 
which made us hope that the Wind would change: It being then a Calm* 
about Moon-rifing we weighed, betwixt, Ten and Eleven a clock at night' 
and found a good South-wefl: Wind. When we were got out to Sea, we 
bore away to the ftarbcard, and pafs'd betv^'ixt Andra and Negropont, with a 
Sclro. Wind in Poop. Saturday, the Twentieth, before noon, we made Sctro, fhortly 
chio!^' ^^^^^ Ifpicera, and then Chio : About evening, the Wind turned Eaft South-eaft, 
but 
