Travels into f/^e L e v a n t. 
Part I. 
but all built in time of the Knights. St.John's Church is ftill to be Teen there, 
but it is at prefent a Mofque. There is a little Nich over the great Gate of it, 
that hath a round cover, and upon that cover, the Figures of our Saviour, the 
Blefled Virgin, and St. John holding the Crofs, are cut in bas relief. The 
Gate is of Wood, pretty well carv'd ; and on the left hand as you come 
cut of the Church, (into which no Chriftian is nowfuffered to enter) is ths 
ftreet of the Knights, where all of them ( I believe) lodged , for there arc 
feveral Coats of Arms upon the houfes of that ftreet, out of which there is ftill 
a gate to go into St. John's : This is a long ftreight ftreet, and mounts 
upwards ; it is paved with fmall Stones, and in the middle of the ftreet there 
is a line of white Marble a foot broad, which reaches from one end to the other j 
at the upper end of it, is the Palace of the great Mafter, but no body now lives 
in it. None but Turks and Jews live in the City of Rhodes ; for Chriftians are 
not fuffered to be there, though they keep Shops in the Town, but at night 
they muft retire to the Villages in the Gountrey about, being only allowed to 
come to Town in the day-time. 
CHAP. LXXIV. 
Departure 
frem Erodes. 
The Coun- 
trey oiChnres. 
Scurpmo. 
Gulf of Sau- 
ha. 
Bouhryl 
Of the Voyage from Rhodes Alexandria. 
WE ftay'd at Khodes till Chrifitnas^ having all the while very bad weather,' 
great Rains, and much Thunder. At length on Monday^ Chriftmas' 
day, the five and twentieth of December, the wind turned North-weft j but 
becaufe it was ftill clofe and cloudy weather, our Captain would not put out 
that day, though a great many Saiques fetfail. On St. 5ïf/>èf»'s-day, being 
Tuefday the fix and twentieth of I?ft-mk?',('it clearing a little up, and the North- 
welt-wind continuing,) we fet out from Rhodes after twelve a clock, making fail 
only with our Fore-iail,that we might not leave the Ifland before night,for fear 
of Corfairs. After Sun-fet we fpread our Main-fail, and in a fliort time, left 
Lit.do, the Countrey of Chares^ who made the CoUffus of Rhodes^ a ftern of us ; 
it is a little Rock at a point of the Ifle of Rhodes., threefcorc miles from the 
Town. There is a fmall Town on it, with a very good Fort. When it was 
two or three hours in the night, we came over againft the Ifle of Scav^amo^ 
fifty miles from Ltnde, w hich we left to the ftar-board ; then we entered into 
the Gulf of S^f^/i<?, where for two or three hours time, we had a rowling Sea, 
becaufe the Current of that Gulf, makes an Eddy with the Currents of the 
Gulf of Venice., and other places to the Weft ward, which is the caufe that the 
Sea is a little rough there : This Palfage was heretofore fo dangerous, that 
many VeiTels were caft away in it ^ but the Sea-men fay, that St. retur- 
ning from Jeriifalemy threw one of the Nails of our Saviour's Crofs into it, and 
that fince the danger has been lefs. After that,about mid-nightjit began to blow 
fo frefh from North- north- weft,that we reckoned our running to be ten miles an 
liour,though we carried only our Main- fail, that we might not leave a Gallion ot 
Turkifli Ship, that was our Confort, and was a great way a ftern of us. She 
came with us from Chio, and was alfo bound for Alexandria. That wind lafted 
sU Wednefday^ the feven and twentieth of December., St. John the Ev ange lift" 
day, and at night it flackened a little, and then changed to the North-eaft, 
but fo eafie a gale, that we got a head but little or nothing during the whole 
night, and all next day, which was St. /w«ocm's-day, the twenty eighth of 
December. That day towards the evening, the wind blew a little freflier, but 
ftiortly after was calmed by a fhower of Rain : About midnight it blew again 
fo hard, that Friâay the nine and twentieth of Dfcfw^/^r, by break of day we 
made the Land oft^^^'pf, and the wind chopping about to Weft-north- weft, 
we ftood away towards Bonkery, five hundred miles diftant from Rhodes, but 
the wind caft us fo far to the lee-ward, that fliortly after we found ourfelves 
be- 
