Travels into the L e v a n t. 
Part 1. 
^ap, Joppx. Jaffa was heretofore called Jtfja ; it is a Town built upon the top of a Rock 
whereof there remains no more at prefent but fome Towers, and the Port of ic 
was at the foot of the faid Rock. There it is that the Fables relate how Andro- 
The place meda was bound to a Rock, and expofed to the Ses-Monfter, but delivered by 
^fiSl^ P^^f'^^^y who killed that Monfter. There ic was alfo where the Prophet Jofias 
boiind.^^^ embarked when he fled from the Face of God, who commanded him to c^o and 
Preach Repentance to the People of Nineveh. Into the fame Port alfo came the 
Cedars, which Salomon caufed to be cut upon Mount Libams, for building the 
Temple of Jerhfalem. It was in that Town, where St. Peter living in the Houfe 
of Simon the Tanner, raifed Tabitha^ AElt. 9. In the fame place he faw a Sheet 
full of all forts of Animals let down from Heaven, AEh. 10. It was in the fame 
place that Mary Magdalen^ with her Sifter Martha^ and Brother Laz.arHSy were 
by the Jews put on board of an old fhatter'd VefTel, without Rudder, Sails or 
.Oars. 
Jaffa is at prefent a place of few Inhabitants, and all that is to be feen of it, is 
a little Caftle with two Towers, one round, and another fquare, and a threat 
Tower feparated from it on one fide. There are do other Houfes by the Sea- 
fide, but five Grotts cut in the Rock, of which the fourth is in a place of retreat 
for Chriftians. The Francifcan Friars had made fome Rooms there for the 
convenience of Pilgrims, but they had an Avanie put upon them, faying, That 
they would have built a Fort to Command the Countrey, and all was thrown 
down again. There is a Harbour ftill in the fame place where it was for- 
merly, but there is fo little water in it, that none but fmall Barks can enter tha 
fame. 
CHAP. LII. 
Our Defarime from Jaffa. Our Kancounter with a 
French Corf air. And our Arrival at Acre. 
W 
'E Itayed fome days at Jaffa., not only becaufe the Bark had not in as 
yet all her Lading, but alfo becaufe of the Weather. At length, every 
thing being in readinefs, we went on board a Bark of the French Nation of 
j4cre.y Sunday the fifth of May., about feven a clock in the morning, and making 
/ntiptttris. all the fail we could, we faw in palTing, Antifanis^ C£farea^ Tortofa^ called by 
C4area. the Franks Cajlel Pelegrino. Then we made Mount Carmel, and fliortly after 
r^/zl^p Acrcj where we made account to be in two hours time, when we began to 
^rlw. ^ ^' ^^^^ ^^^^^ '•h^ misfortunes to which all Sea-faring Men are obnoxious ; till 
Mount cir- tf^at time I had never met with any bad rancounter at Sea, and fince that, I 
mei. never made any Voyage without fuch, though God in his great Mercy hath 
brought me always lafely off. 
Being got near then to Mount Carmel., which runs out a great way into the 
Sea, we faw on the other fide of the Point, the top of a Maft, which at firlt 
we took to be fome Bark at anchor near the fliore, but afterwards feeing a 
Caiqne full of Men making towards us, our ^7^, ('who was a Turk,) told us 
they were Chriftians, and prefentJy went into his Caiqne, and put into llioar, 
where were a great many Arabs both on Foot and on Horfe-back, who called to 
us, and we were fo near land, that we plainly heard them call in Arabick, 
Taala., Cor [a mm Mdta ; Come, it is a Cor fair of Malta ; calling all Velfels in 
courfe fuch, becaufe they often receive Vifites from thefe Gentlemen : But at 
this time they faid true, and the fame Arabs fired Small-fhot briskly at them, 
which for all that, hindred them not from making up to us : When I knew 
them to be Chrillians, I perfwaded a Greek that remained behind, and flood by 
the Helm, to fteer right towards them, fince taking them for Friends, I would 
not go a- (hoar where we would have been ftript by the Arabs ^ who left our 
