Travels into the Ise van 
T. 
Part I. 
Seftos and A- 
biios. 
The Amours 
Lexiîder. 
The Place 
where Xerxes 
caus'd ^ Bridge 
to be built 
upon the Sea. 
The reafon 
. why the doors 
of theGreeh 
houfes are ve- 
ry low. 
Turkifh Gal- 
leys remain- 
ing fince the 
Battel of Le- 
pMto. 
The îfle of 
Murmora. 
Propontis. 
Arrival at 
Conflaniinopk. 
may be fearched whether they have any Counterband Goods or Fugitive Slaves 
on board. Thefe two places of Seftos and Abydos are famous for the Love of 
Leander and Hero. Much about this place Xerxes^ King of Perfa^ made a 
Bridge of Boats, to pafs his Army over from JÎfia into Europe : From Jndra 
to thefe Cailles, it is about two hundred and fourfcore miles. Tue [day ^ No- 
vember the Twenty Third, having a gale of Wind about Noon, we weighed 
Anchor, but were obliged to drop itagainin the Evening, becaufe of a calm. 
IVcdnefday, November the Twenty Fourth, we weighed again after Midnightj 
and putting out three Oars on each fide of the Ship, our Men tugg'd fo hard' 
that we arrived at Ga\lipoly about One a clock : From the Cailles to Gallipoly\ 
it is reckoned about fiv^ and thirty miles. There we llopt eight days, during 
which time, we had leifure to walk, but found no great matter worth the 
obfervation. This Town was built by C^//?4/, Vnnœ of the Athenians, from 
whom it was named C^//?ff(3//j, and by corruption G^/Zzpo/y : It feems not to 
be well peopled, and there is hardly any body to be feen but in the Market- 
places : Several GmjE-j live there, who, for the mod part, fell Rakl, or Jirandy ; 
the Doors of their Houfes are but about two foot high, and they make tftem fo 
that the Turks may not come in on Horfe-back,as they do elfewhere, when they 
are drunk, and turn all things topfy-turvy. In this Town there is a fquare 
Caille, with a Tower, joined to it by a Pomel of a Wall j but for what 1 can 
judge of its Antiquity, I believe it hath been built by the Chriflians. On the 
Sea-lide, there is an Arfenal, where feven very old Galleys are to be feen, 
which the Turks fay were taken from the ^^■«if?/^z«^, when they took the Ifland 
of Cyprus -J but the truth is, they are the remains of their Fleet which efcaped 
from the Battel of Lepanto-^ and they were carried by main flrength over the 
Ifthmus of Cor/«^^, and put into the Archipelago.^ not being able to bring them 
about by Sea, becaufe the ChriftianSjWho had taken or fonk the reft, poffelFed all 
the PaiTes. Wcdnefday^the Firft of December^ a little gale of Wind blowing, we 
weighed at Four of the clock in the Afternoon ; for we were all weary enough 
of flaying there : But we were hardly out of the Harbour, when it behoved 
us to come to an Anchor again : The Moon Ihining a little, about Nine a 
clock at night ''ve weighed, and with a good Weft South-weft Wind, which 
made us run apace, we palled the Ifleof Marmora'mthe Night-time : At this 
place the Sea is very wide, and this Sea is called Mare de Marmora, which 
was anciently named Propomis. Thtirfday, the Second of September., the Wind 
chopt about to the South, which made us run a great deal fafter ^ bnt the 
Currents, which are very ftrong in that place, being againft us, hindered us 
from making fo much way as otherwife we could have done ; at length, with 
the day, we difcovered Conftantinople^ which is about an hundred and twenty 
five miles fiomGall^poly ; being entered the Streight of it, and failing along the 
SerragUo and Conftantwople., we came to an Anchor at Galata, betwixt One and 
Two in the Afternoon. There we learn'd, that there had been a Fire in 
that great City the Night before, which was not as yet fully quenched ; we had 
feen it iu the Propomis^ but conld not imagine where it ftiould be. Ailbon 
as I yyas got a fhore, I went to wait upon Monfeur de la Haye, Ambaffadour 
for the French King, who received me very civily : I then went to lodge in 
Galata., at a Flemand's Houfe, named Monficnr de la Roze, who kept a Peniion ; 
and forae days after, I hired a very pretty Houfe at Pera, which had a Gar- 
den, and a Profped into the mouths of the two Seas, and all at a very cheap 
rate. 
CHAP. 
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