Part L ' Travels into the h^y àN t. i y 
but we ftili continued our courfe with good enough fuccefs, until next morning, 
November the One and Twentieth, when about Three or four a clock, we made 
Land, but knew not whether or not it was Tenedo ; and about break of day we 
tacked, and then found that we were pafs'd it ; for we were before Troy^ and 
very near Land . Our Ship ftuck a ground, with the noife of which, our Cap- The ship? 
tain awoke : and thinking the Ship to be loft, he prefently fent to view the arountU ^ 
Pump, to fee if Ihe had made much water y but they found none at ali : At ^ 
the fame time, he launched the Boat, and going into it, viewed the Snip all 
round, and found that (he had received no damage, her head having only 
Itruck upon the fand : He thereupon ordered all the Sails to be furled, and the 
Ship beginning to float again, hecaufed an Anchor to be heaved out aftern, 
by means whereof, in a ftiort time, we weighed olF of the fand. We had 
certainly the particular alFiftance of God Almighty at that time, for it blowing 
fo frefh, aud we having all our Sails abroad, the Ship in all probability ftiould 
have firanded ; and neverthelefs, in an hours time, we were got off, without 
fpringisig the kaft leak : But if the ground had been very Rocky, as it was but 
a kind of Oaze, the Ship had certainly been loft. Whilft the Seamen were 
bufie in clearing the Ship, feeing myfelfout of danger of Ihipwreck, I confi- 
dered the Ruins of that ancient and famous City of Troy^ which are ftill very 
remarkable, and of great extent. Being at length got clear, we ftood a little 
more off to the larboard, and betwixt Nine and Ten of the clock, we palTed ^ ^ 
the Mouths, and entered the Chanel of the Helkffom. It was at this place, ^^hc Helkf- 
where the Turks firft palTed from Afia'mto Europe. At One a clock, the Wind pgnt, 
calming, we came to an Anchor. Monday^ the two and twentieth of Novan- 
her^ a South Wind blowing, much about the fame hour in the Afternoon, we 
weighed Anchor, and foon after pafs'd betwixt the Caftles of the Dardanels 
(which we faluted with three Petrerds) and about Three in the Afternoon, we 
came to an Anchor. 
CHAP. XIV. 
Of the Dardanelles, Gallipoly^ and our arrival 
at Conftantiiiople. 
THE two Caftles oftheD4r<5?4;;f//£?; are upon the nde of the Chanel of the ^^y^^^^^;^^ 
Hellefpont, which the Turks call by excellence only Boahas ; that is to 
fay, Gorge or Chanel ^ the one is iu Europe^ and the other in yl/ia j they are 
two miles diftant from one another, which is the whole breadth of the Chanel 
at this place. That which isin ^ow^««^,on the fide of is in the fame place 
"where, in ancient Times, Seftos ftood : It is built in a triangular form , at s^jîos, 
the foot of a Hill, which commands and covers it ; and upon which there is a 
little Town : This Caftle hath three Towers covered with Lead ^ whereof 
two are towards the Land, and the third, which is the bigeft, upon the Har- 
bour i it hath, as I could privately difcern with a Perfpedive-glafs, about 
twenty Port-holes level with the water, in which there are Guns of fuch a pro- 
digious bore, that befides what I could obferve by my Glafs, I was allured, 
that a Man might eafily creep into them. The other Caftle, which is in ^^a- 
toHa^ mAfia^ in the place where heretofore Ahidos ^ooày is in a Plain, ^nd Ahydos, 
feemed to me to be almoft fquare ; it hath three Towers on each fide, and a 
Dundgeon or Platform in the middle ^ but it hath not fo many Gun- holes as ^^if,^^^^, (.j^e 
the other. Mahomet the fécond. Son of Amitrath the Second, built thefe two Second built 
Forts, which are properly the Keys Conft-antimple, that is at two hundred thefe two Ca- 
miles diftance ; for they hinder any Ship, Friend or Foe, to pafs them without ^f^- 
leave, elfe they would run a danger of being funk. All Veflels that come J the ^^^^^^^ 
from Confiaminople^ ftop three days before the Caftle in Anatolia, that they nelles from 
D may Conjimmci^k. 
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