Part II. 
Travels into the Levant. 
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StmJajûiQ tenrh oï February, about break of day, it was thought we had 
icen the \^\^\\coï Akxa7tdr:a^ but it proved oncly to be a Saick-, and becaufe 
we were apprehcnfive that we were to the Lee-ward of Alexandria ; about 
nine in the morning we tacked about, and ftood North-Weft, and about three 
a Clock after Noon, tacked again and bore away South-Weft ; we had after- 
wards fèveral Flurries that brought great fliowers of rain with them, which 
were foon over. About five in the Evening the Wind turned Weft- ♦ 
North Weft, and we tacked about that we might get to the windward of Alex- 
amlrea, from which we wereftill aboutan hundred and ten Miles diftant, and 
therefore \vq bore away North. In this manner we plied to and again a- 
gainft our will ; and it was our misfortune that we knew not where we 
were, onely becaufe we had not made the Ifland of Candie, from whence -^"ermirof 
with that Wind we might eafily have come to Alexandria in two Days and '^^^"diUion ii 
one Nights time ; and the reafbn why we made it not plainly, was that the 
Ship had run two hundred Miles more than we had reckoned, and that 
^vhen we thought our felves to be at the beginning of Candie, we were al- 
nioft quire paft it, as we fince obferved. The Wind blew hard, and we had 
Several gufts in the Night time. 
We held on the fame courfe ftill untill Mtmday , when about eleven a Clock 
in the Fore-noon we tacked, and bore away South- Weft; In the Evening, 
the Moon three hours after the full was eclipfed : I cannot tell at what 
hour that Eclipfe began, of how many parrs it was, nor how long it con- 
tinued ; becaufe fhe rofe overcaft with Clouds, fô that we could nor fee her 
but when fhe was coming out of the Eclipfe; as near as I could guefs fhe 
had then been up near an hour, and the Sun had not been fet half an hour, 
at which time fhe was almoft half eclipfed. The Eclipfe decreafed from 
the time we perceived it, and ended half an hour after : The Almanacks of 
Marfeilles foretold it to be very great about two or three a Clock after Noon, 
and by confequcnce affirmed that it could not be fèen : In the Night the Wind " 
abated much, and fo did the Sea, which in the day time had been very rough 
and high. 
Tuejday morning the twelfth of February^ we perceived the Sea very 
white about us, and he that looked out cryed Land, fome thought it to be 
Damiette, and oûiQïs Bouciuer ; In the mean time that we might not fall to 
the Leeward, we continued our courfe South-Weft. About eight of the 
Clock we tacked and ftood North Eaft ; and a quarter of an hour after the 
Wind turning North- Weft, we bore away Weft-South-Weft : after an hours 
failing v^^e found the Water to be fb little brackifh that it was almoft frefh, 
and he that looked out thought he made : Wherefore thinking that we 
knew where we were, we tacked about and ftood away North-North-Eaft. 
About Noon the Wind frefhened, and at Night turned Northerly, but was 
very gentle ; about ten of the Clock at Night we tacked, and bore away 
Weft. 
ff edncfday about four in the morning, we tacked and fleered our courfe 
Eaft-North-Eaft, and two hours after, the Wind blowing freflier, we tacked 
again, and flood Weft- South- Weft. About feven a Clock in the Morning, we 
faw to the Lar-board, land very near us, which we all took to be the Land 
betwixt BcHciuer and RoJJttto, fb that we continued our courfe,hoping quickly to 
ice the Boucjuer ; and that till eleven in the Forenoon, when having difcovered 
the Mafts of feveral Satcks,-wQ thought our felves to be off and on with RoJJeno^ 
and fo we found our felves far out in our account ; wherefore having tacked 
about, we bore away Eafl-North-Eaft ; about ten of the Clock at Night we. 
tacked again, and ftood Weft-South-Weft, and after midnight we had feveral 
Flurries. 
Thurfday morning the fourteenth of February, the Wind fïackened a little^ 
but we had feveral gufts till Noon : about eleven in the Morning he that 
looked out made the Bouquer, and an hour after we eafily faw it upon the Bouquet 
Deck : a little after we made the Fanllon or Light-houfeof Alexandria, where 
we arrived about three in the Afternoon, when we entered the Haven by 
the South. 
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