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Part I. i ravels inîi} the Levant. y 
great Port ^ Ehele two Ports are feparated by a tongue of pretty high Land, 
on the point whereof the Cailie of St. Erme was buijt, and fince adjoyning to 
it, the City Vdetta : The Port of Marfamouchet is for Ships to perform their 
quarantine in, before they haveaccefs to the To wn, andforfuch as by real'bn 
of foul weather cannot get into the great Port ^ as alfo for Cafiirs^ who 
coming only for a fnort ftay, put not in into the great Port, becaufe it is not 
ealïe to get out again. There is a little Ifland in this Port, and in it the 
Ldz^aretto^ where they who are to perform their quarantine, lodge : The great 
Port contains feveral Havens within it, and is fecured by two Rocks,one on each Many Ports 
fide of the Entry ; on that which is on the right-hand, the Caille of St. Erme 
is built j in foui weather it is very dangerous to come near it, and fpecial care 
muft be had both in coming and going out of it ; having pafs'd thefe Rocks, 
you fee to the left-hand a Haven, where the VelTels that come from t\\Q. Levant, y 
and are not to ftay at Malta, put into, that they may be feparated from the " 
reft; advancing a little further, you pafs betwixt the Town of which 
is to the right-hand, and the Caftle of St. Ai^elo, to the left, Handing upon caftie of St. 
the point ofa tongue of Land, along which lies the Bour^^ at the back of the Angdo in Ani- 
faid Caftle; after that you find another Haven to the left-hand, which is very 
good and fafe, and is betwixt the Botsr£ and the Ifle oîSangle, which is a tongue lAe of Sangk. 
of Land, inhabited, almoft like to that of the ^w/r^, to which it is parallel; 
thefe two tongues, reaching from Eaft to Weft, like two fingers of a hand. 
The Galleys of the Order are laid up in this Haven, and all the VelTels that 
are to make any ftay at Malta, either to load, careen, or refit, put in there, 
it being fhut with an Iron Chain. There is a little Haven at the bottom of 
this Port ftaked in, where, in the Evening, all the fmall Barks are fliut up, 
left Slaves might make their Efcape in the Night-time : Beyond the Ifland, 
there is Watv:r, further up, but it is of no depth ; from the entry of the 
great Port to the extremity, or rather bottom of it, it is, at leaft, two miles. 
9. 
CHAP. VI. 
Of the Caftles St. Angclo and St, Erme. 
Sfo on as the King of Spain had given the Ifland of Malta to the Knights Caftles. , 
oi St. John, Phthp de Vdlicrs,l' Jflt-Mam, who at that time was Great ^"a'^'^- 
Mafter of the Order, came and took poiFefiion of it, and lodged in the ^^^^^%\^^Q^ezt 
OÎ St. Angela, as the reft of the Order did in the Bourg : But Sultan Soliman not fa- Rafter vil- 
tisfied with the ïfle of Rhodes, out of which hç had driven that illuftrious Order,//m. 
having a defign utterly to extirpate thofe mt^, who though but few in number, 
had put him to fo much trouble, and from \%pùm he was ftill apprehenfive of 
more mifchief, fent in the year 1 5<55^a powerful Army to take the Ifle oî Malta : Sofimm fent 
It arrived there in the month of July, Friar John ofTaletta being then great Mafter, Eefieged 
2nd landed towards Mount Pekgnno. The Turks prefently attacked the Caftle St. ^f'^ji^^ 
£me,which wholly defends the Entries into the great Port 2LnàMarfamouchet',thQy Great Ma- 
raifed their Batteries in the place where the Town oïValetta ftands, which was fœr. 
not then begun to be built, and battered that Caftle fo furioufly> that having -f^'''^- 
Mlled afl that defended itjthey made themfelves Mafters of the fame : Then they 'Zf^ ^ r 
turned againft the Bourg and the IfleDe la Sangle.'Thc Country is defended by the j^fjj^/f^^ 
Caftle St. Angela yV}\\ich ftands at the end of it on the fide of the Port, upon a ve- 
ry high Rock, and difficult to climb up ; fo that it is almoft inacceflible : The 
Ifle De la Sangle is defended by a Baftion on the point of it : They gave feveral 
Afl^aults to both thefe places, v. here they landed many thoufand Men, but all in 
vain ; for they were ftifl repulfed with great lofs. In the mean time,though the 
Caftle St.Angdo did fo continually annoy them, that they durft not fliew them- 
felvs, yet tlisy battered the Ifle fo furioufly, that they ruined the Works, and 
refolved 
