Part I. 
"5 
without doing them any hurt, though there were fome on board of us,who gave 
advice to fire a Broad-fide into her and fink her. 
In the mean time, the fame South- Wind ftill continuing, we kept beating 
to and again till Monday^ the elventh of December ^ when two Hours before 
Night, we manned our Boat to tow us into a narrow paflage, which is betwixt 
|he Ifle of Sanhtki-, by the Turks called Smbiki, and another inhabited Ifland ; 
we came to an Anchor there about Sun-fetting. This is ^very narrow place, 
and pretty fecure from Winds ; when you are pafled the llreight, there is a 
Village upon the Sea- fide, where none but Greeks live, who Trade up and down 
in Sanbikisj by the Turks called Snnbikis^ which were firft invented and made in SmbMsl 
this Ifland. Thefe Veffels are a kind of Galiotts, which we lhall Treat of in 
another place. We ftayed there all that Night, and next day, being Tuefday 
the twelfth of December \ Wednefday the thirteenth of December, at break of 
day, a gentle Gale blowing ftill from the South, our Caique towed us out of the 
Streight, and then we fpread Sail. Betwixt Nine and Ten a Clock, the Wind 
turned about to North-north- Weft, with which we made fo good way, that 
about Three a Clock in the Afternoon we arrived at Rhodes, an hundred Miles 
from Stanchio. We lay thirteen days in the Harbour of Rhodes, during which 
time, I confidered that place as much as I could, not daring, however, to 
eye any thing too attentively ^ for fo foon as I ftopt, the Turks obferved me, 
and a C/?jof Gentleman with whom I was, jogged me at the fame time, to di- 
vert me from my Curiofity, which might prove hurtful, efpecially at that 
time, when in all the Ifles of Tnrkie, they apprehended a defcent from the 
Venetians. 
CHAP. LXXIII. 
Of Jfle and City of Rhodes. 
TH E Ifle of Rhodes hath Lycia to the North, the Sea betwixt them being 
about twenty Miles broad ; the Ifle of Cyprus to the Eaft, Candie to the 
Weft, and zy^^yp to the South ; it is an hundred Miles in Circuit, lying in fo 
temperate a Climate, that fas they fay) there is no day but the Sun fliines 
upon it; however I have been fome days there when no Sun appeared, atleaft 
at the Town. This is a very fruitful Ifland, and hath feverai Villages well In- 
habited, befidesafmaUCity, which is very ftrong: The Ifland hath had feve- 
rai Mafters, for the Saracenes took it from the Gresks, under the Conduct of 
Afahnvias ; then it returned to the Chriftians, and afterwards to the Saracenes 
from whom it was taken on the day of the Affumption of our Lady , in 
the Year 1309. by the Knights Hofpitallers of St. John of Jemfalem, who 
Fortified it. The Hiftory of the Religion of Malta, Treats at large of the 
City of Rhodes, the Foundation of it ; and how the Hofpitallers or 
Knights of St. John, became Mafters of the fame. The Calif of ^ay^t Be- th <5' ' 
fieged it in the Year 1444. and after fome time raifed the Siege, for they did Rhodes hftht 
him a great deal of Mifchief, which made him feverai times defire their Friend- cdiff of je^ 
(hip. Afterwards Mahomet the Second laid Siege to it the twelfth of May^êyp^- 
1480. Monfieur d"* Ambajfe, a French-man, being then great Mafter. He raifed ^'^^ ^'^^^ °^ 
the Siege three Months after, and only loft his time for his pains. At length Som n 
Solyman the Second being Emperour, and not enduring that after the Conqueft 
of a fmall place in the heart of his Dominions, held by a handful of 
Men, Ihould give him fo much trouble, made Application to them by all the 
ways of Mildnefs, defiring no more of them but the leaft acknowledgment 
But finding that by no means they would fubmit, he refolved to take the place 
by forces and having made great preparations, went with his Army in Perfon 
to that Ifland, refolvlng to be prefent at an Expedition wherein he took fo 
Q. ^ great 
