Part I. 
Travels into the Levant. 
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below Alexandria^ where we endeavoured to put in, beating to and again all Arrival near 
day long i but in the evening we were ftin to come to an anchor five or fix ^'^ ^^ey-andria, 
miles Ihort of the Town. We flay'd ftill there all Sunday the one and twentieth 
of December^ and then in the night-time the wind turning North, blew fo hard, 
that our Vefl^el was very much tolled. 
Mtnday, the firll day of the Year the wind abating a little about 
eleven a clock, we weighed, ftanding in towards th^ Harbour of the Galleys, 
where half an hour afcer we came to an anchor. There we were informed, 
that a great Gallion was call away in the Port of Alexandria, which belonged to 
two Turkilh Merchants, and had a great deal of Goods onboard, to wit," Flax, 
Coffee and Sugar, to the value of a hundred and fifty Thoufand P/^y?ra: Not 
but that the Port is good enough ^ but they faid, that there was negligence in 
the cafe ; and that the Cables were old, and not look'd to for eleven months 
that the Gallion was in the Port, fo that they were rotten in the water. This 
Gallion rode with four Anchors abroad, yet one night, a little before day, all 
* the Cables broke much at the fame time, which the company that were onboard 
perceiving, fired two Guns for aiïïftance ; but no help being given them, about 
break of day (he fplit upon a Rock, all the men that were on board, were faved, 
except a Turkiih Merchant, who would not be faved, faying, that he would 
not leave his Goods that were in the Gallion ; and indeed, he perilhed with the. 
Ship, which was fo broken to pieces, that in an hours time there was no more 
to be feen of her. Neverthelefs help might have been given them, feeing 
( notwithftanding the ftorm) Caiques went and came, and all that was to b^ 
done, was but to carry them a Cable or two. All the Goods that were faved of 
a Cargoe worth an hundred and fifty Thoufand Piajîresj was no more but a' 
little Flax, which tliey took up floating upon the water, and which I after- 
wards faw fpread abroad to dry. She was the faireft Gallion that ever the 
Turks built, exceeding even the Sultana^ taken fome years fince by the Knights 
of Maha^ which was fo high, that the Main-maits heads of the Galleys of Malta^ . 
did not reach up to her fide, I was told that this was another-guefs Gallion, and 
that her flern was higher than the Main-top-mafl; head of om Saique^ which 
reverthelefs was One of the largell; of the kind. She was built at ConftaminofUy 
and cod eight and thirty Thoufand Tiaftres ^ her burthen was fifteen hundred 
Tun, but ftie wns now grown old ^ ftie had qn board forty Guns, and would 
carry three thoufand Men ; nay the firft Voyage Ihe made from Conft antinomie ^ 
flie had two thoufand and one hundred Perfons on board. Neverthelefs the Sea 
at this time was fo enraged, that not fatisfied with this great booty, it carried 
its fury farther, and calt away a Saique in the moath of the NUe^ in which two 
and forty Men were drowned ; but Cthanks be to God) we were at Rhodes^ 
during that Tempeft. 
