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Travels into theh^y ant. 
Part I, 
on the top of the Town, dedicated to St. Geor^e^ and ferved by feveral Priefis, 
who have a Latin Bifliop for their Superiour, that lives cn his Revenue and 
Tithes : But there are fome of thefe Churches in fo bad order, l'haï they Icok 
more like Ware-houfes, than Churches . The C afucins Cin fpight of the Here- 
ticks and Schifmaticks bring many into the Church by tlieir confiant Preaching. 
They Catechife there, and inftrud the young Children, who have a very 
quick wit, and are apt to learn. They often hear Confeflions,and their Chuich 
which is dedicated to St. 'john^ was built at the charge of the Publick. There 
is another Church alfo, dedicated to the J^trgin^ and ferved by the Religious 
of the Order of St. Domimck, Six miles from the Town, there is a little Gar- 
den, where there are fome ftocks of Orange-Trees, and fome Springs, with a 
Chapel dedicated to the Firpn, and fome Hermite commanly lives there. They 
have no places of Curiofity nor Walks. 
CHAP. LXX. 
Of the IJles of Samos cmd Nicaiia. 
Saques. 
Departure 
from Chio. 
Samos. 
Pythagoras. 
Polycrates. 
Stbylk of Sit- 
wo 
Hi car id. 
liar id. 
AFter I had long waited for a PafTage to (y£gyt, an occcaillon (at length) 
offered of a great Saiqne bound for Roffetto. Thefe Satques are like great 
Barks, having a round hulk , and a very big and high Main-maft. They carry 
great Cargoes of Goods, but they fail not fait, unlefs they be before the Wind, 
or rather they fail no otherwife, for they cannot go upon a Wind. The Greeks 
make ufe of no other Veflels for trading both in the White and Black Seas, and 
that's the reafon there are fo many of them ; though the Chriftian Corfairs pick 
up feveral of them now and then. I fpake to the Mafter of this Saiqne^ who 
was a Jantz^ary^ and he promifed to give me notice when the weather was fair 
to fet out J but that 1 might be the more at eafe, I hired the Purfers Cabin in 
the top of the Poop, which was fo little, that when my Man and I turn'd in, 
there was not half a foot of room to fpare. I then befl-ir'd my felf fpeedily to 
make my provifions,not forgetting a Cafot for my felf,and another for my Man. 
A Capt is a certain Field-garment, lined through with the fame fluff it is made 
of, and fhaped like a Waltcoat, reaching down to the knee ^ there are flceves 
for the arms, and a hood faftened to it for the head. All the Sea-men have 
Capots, and it feems to me to be fo neceffary an Implement, not only for Sea- 
men, but for all that travel by Sea, that I cannot fee how in a long Voyage, 
one can be without it: In cafe of neceffity, it will ferve for a Quilt and Co- 
verlet : With a Capot, y ou may fit down and lye where you pleafe,and without 
it you would pitch all your cloaths: rain or blow, you may walk abroad in 
the air with your Capot ; and within a Capot, you need neither fear wet nor 
cold I found fo much good in this Garment, and have received fo many Ser- 
vices from it, that I thought I could not but here fay fomething in praife of it. 
Being then provided with all things neceffary for a pretty long Voyage ( though 
they gave me hopes that in eight or ten days time 1 fliculd be in ^gyft') I went 
on board on Wednefday the Fifteenth of November^ about three a clock in the 
Afternoon , and an hour after, we fet out of the Port of Chio with a North- 
wind. We made not much way that day. 
Thurfday morning, the fixteenth of November^ the wind ceafcd, leaving us 
before the Ifle of Samos.^ which is threefcore miles from C^/o. This is a very 
barren Ifland, by what I could perceive ^ but is famous, for having been the 
Native Countrey of Pjr^^î^oy^J, that great Philofopher ; oï Polycrates^ fo much 
renowned for his good fortune \ and of a Sibyl : It is fourfcore miles in circuit. 
Pretty near, and over againft: Samos^ is the Ifle of Nicaria, called in ancient 
times /carta, from Icarus^ the Son of Dœdahis : It is in figure long, the Land of 
it very dry, and all high Rocks, wherein are theHoufes of the Inhabitants, 
who 
