Part L Travels into t'be Lev ant. ç i 
Wednefday we parted from Dgelembe about five a a Ciock in the Morning, 
and about eleven came to a Village called Talamout ; and though there be a raUmom. 
Kervanferai in it, which is the ufuai Lodging-place, yet we ftopM not there, 
but went on, that v:z might baulk the Robbers, whom we were afraid we 
might meet, and flop'd two Miles beyond it in a Plain, that we might rell 
a little, and refrefn our Beafts. 
There were ^ great many Robbers at that time upon the Road, and they 
were thofe who had efcaped from the Battel of the Dardanelles^moG-oiVntva 
Barbary Men, who gave no Quarter j for not thinking it enough to Rob, they 
Killed Travellers, and that made us keep a good Watch, and often look 
to our Arms j having with us befides, Troopers, whom the Mafter of the 
Caravane had hired to Guard the Caravane ; who had indeed fome Allarms 
upon tbe Road, bat they proved always to be falfe. We took Horfc again 
about two in the Afternoon, and about five a Clock came to a pitiful Village or 
Hamlet, near to which we lay abroad in the Fields , for till then we had always 
lain in Kervan ferais, under cover. There v;e found a great many water Melons, water Melons 
which were a great regale for the Turks, who are great lovers of Fruits, 
and efpeciallyof that fort ; and indeed every one of them eat one at leaft for his 
lhare. We left that wretched Lodging on Thar [day about five a clock in the Mor- 
ning, and about eight came to a great Town called Manajfa-, and lodged in a fair Manaft. 
Kervanferai, where we found every thing neceffary, nay Wine too ; for there 
are feveral Greeks there. We flayed all that day and the next in that Town, 
and parted on Saturday the Sixteenth of September, about five a Clock in the 
Morning, and the fame day about Noon arrived at Smyrna. 
CHAP. LX. 
Of the City of Smyrna., , 
SMyrm a noted Town of Jonia was anciently founded by Tantalus, and smym. 
fince called Snjyrna,(rom the name of one of the Amaz.ones that invaded Jfia^ ^'^^w^w^* 
and took that Town -, long after that, it was ruined by an Earthquake, and Re- 
built by Marc Antony, nearer to the Sea, becaufe of the commodioufnefs of the 
Harbour. Itbraggs of being the native place of the Poet Homer % and the HemsrsCom- 
Turks at prefent call it Jfmyr. This is a large Town, and well inhabited try. 
both by Turks and Chriftians ; but it is a kind of a melancholick place, and 
not at all Strongs it is commanded by a Gallic of fomewhat difficult accefs: 
this Caftle is very ruinous, and but meanly guarded ; you have a large Cift- 
ern in it cut all out of a Rock, having five Mouths and feveral Chanels. Be- 
low the Caftle, as you go to S^i«?<? re^fr^??^/^, which is a Church of the Greeks, 
there is a great Amphitheatre, where St. Polycarp the Difciple of St. John The place,..- 
and Bilhop of Smyrna, fuffered Martyrdom. It is very high, and in the up- 
per part thereof, there arc ftill five niches, where the Seats of the Magiftrates jJaJ^fyrdoS! 
were, not far from thence there are feveral Ruines of St. John's, Cathedral 
Church, which has been very large, and full of Chappels. In one of thefe 
Chappels there is a Tomb, which the Greeks believe to be the Sepulchre of 
St. Polycarp ; But Others ^with more Reafon) take it to be the Monument of 
fome Turk. There is alfo another Caftle below by the Marine or Sea- fide, A Caftle in 
which is well Inhabited ; and over the Gate of it, are the Arms of the Church "'^^'"^ 
of Rome ; perhaps it hath been built by the Genoefe, whd weremaftersof Smyrna, of^ti^eClnircfe 
and of all that Coaft. This Caftle (huts the Port, which is but little, and no of Rom;. 
Forreign Ships come into it, but ride at Anchor abroad in the Road, which 
is fpacious and fafe. It is difiicult to get out of Since I left Smyrna, they 
have built a Caftle at the mouth of that Road, to hinder whom they pleafe 
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