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Travels into the .L.e v a n t. 
Part I, 
Spnonix. 
Cihndre. 
Coronia. 
St. Hekim 
Town. 
Zor^ohcas, 
Hobgoblins. 
A dead bodv 
vhofe Gholt 
wandred a- 
bout the Vil 
Inge in the 
Night-time. 
the Ifland, and may even be feen from Tenedo, which is many Miles more than an 
hundred diftant from Chio ^ on the top of this Mount there is a Church,dedicated 
to that Saint. This is fo high a place, that it is always covered with Mifts and 
Snow. In the middle of the Mcuntain,there isfo large and copious a Spring,that 
it Waters all the Fields about, which are fertile, and abound in all forts of 
Friaits. In a Wood hard by, there is a Village, called Sfartonda^ whereabout 
fifty Perfons only ( all Shepherds ) live ^ but it is a delightful place, afford- 
ing good Water, and excellent Fruits. Betwixt the Village of Cdmdre^ that 
Hands upon a Hill, and Coronia-, confifting of about an Hundred and fifty 
fcattering Houfes, there is a Bath of Sulphur by the Sea-fide, under extraor- 
dinary big Oaks ^ this Bath is called Hayafma^ which fignifies Holy, orBleffed 
Water, becaufe the Water of it being drank, Cures many Difeafes ^ but it 
Kills a great many People too, by the violence of its Operation. Three Miles 
from the Sea, at the farther end of the Ifland, is the Town St. Helena^ built 
upon a Rock, and containing Two hundred Inhabitants ; it hath two Churches, 
and a Chappel built jaft about the middle of the Hill, where being hollow, 
there hangs in the middle of it a point of a Rock, from which Water conti- 
ally drops, and this Water they alfo call Hayafma ^ Holy, or BlelTed Wa- 
ter. This Water comes from the Mountain impregnated with Rain-Water, 
or the vapours that rife from a deep Valley underneath, where runs a Water 
that drives fome Mills. The Inhabitants of this place firmly believe, that if 
a dead Body do not in forty days time corrupt, it turns to a Hobgoblin, 
which they call 2,orz,olacas^ pr Nomolacas. 
And the Author of the Manufcript, from whence I had this, fays, That 
Travelling that way in the Month of Jfril^ 1537, he found a Prieft reading 
over a dead Body, which he had caufed to be raifed, after it had been fifty 
. days in the Grave, and was neverthelefs ftill found, there being np fign of 
Corruption about it, but a Worm that crawled out of the Eye. The Pirieft 
told the Man who reports this, that that Body, or rather its Ghofi:, went all 
Nightabout the Village knocking at the Doors, and calling the People by their 
Names, and that fuch as made anfwer, died within two or three days after; 
and that the Worm that came out of his Eye,was but a Trick of the Devils,to 
make it believed he was rotten . This place is about thirty Miles from the City, 
and they are all poor Shepherds that live there. The Chappel in the aforefaid 
Rock, is highly efteemed by all the Villages about. From thence one goes to 
Volifoj which is a great Village featcd on a Hill, with a Caltle built by Beli- 
fariits, General to the Emperour of Conftantinofle, who going fomewhere elfe 
by Sea, was by a Storm forced to put on Shoar in that place ; in that Caftle 
there is a Church, with feveral Houfes and Cifterns j the Village contains about 
Three hundred Houfes, and about Fifteen hundred Inhabitants, with feveral 
Churches. The Country about it is very Pleafant, Spacious and Fruitful ; 
and the Inhabitants make Five thoufand Weight of Silk yearly, with the Mo- 
ney whereof they pay their Tribute.- They are very vicious, and (it is 
thought) they lie under a Curfe, of being almoft always deftitute of Bread. 
There is a place, c2i\kdFar'vartfo, where there is a Church dedicated to St- 
llie transfor- Marcella, who ( as the Inhabitants of that place fay ) was converted into 
ination of Stonc in a Grotto by the Sea-fide j whither flie fled to efcape from her Father, 
St. Mircdk. ^j^o would have Defloured her ^ and they fay, that on the day when the Church 
celebrates the Feftival of that Saint, Milk is feen to drop from the Breafts that 
are on the Rock : This with them is a folemn Fealt, which they call Famgirio^ 
the Priefts finging praifes to her all Night long. Three Miles from that Vil- 
lage there is a Monaftery, dedicated to St. Jo^«,and near to that Monaflery is a 
Village called Fata^ below which there is a great Valley, correfponding to 
the Country about f^oUJfo, wherein there is a running Water, that drives 
eight Mills, which ferves all the Villages about; though every Peafant has a 
Hand-mill in his Houfe, wherewith the Women grind the Corn. From thence 
one goes to Sieronda-, which is a very ancient fpacious Tower, inhabited by 
fifty Souls, all Shepherds, who have a Church there ; a little further, is the 
Village of LtcUimiona., containing an Hundred and fitty Inhabitants, with a 
Church j There begin the Maftick-Trees. About two Miles from thence, 
there is a Village called whereof all the Inhabitants are addicted to the 
taming 
V^rvrrifo. 
Fina. 
SiemidiX. 
LeciUrniona. 
Ehtu. 
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