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\'Part IL Travels into /-/^^ Levant. 
which were navigable two hours before ; and on the contrary, wafhingaway 
Iflands, which it had made, and which appeared to be out of reach of the Wa- 
tei', it makes ways for VelTels, in places where before one might have walked 
dry {hod ; and this mans bufine(s is to found every hour of the day, that fb 
he may be able to fhew the right Channel ; and the Mafters of the Ger?ncs 
pay him for his pains. 
At noon we came to i?()//f«o,where I fàw manner the of making Sorbet,whilft Roffetto 
I ftaid there. They made ufè of an hundred and fifty Rottes of Sugar broken The may of 
into fii^all pieces, which they put into a great Kettle over a Fire, with a little making^ov- 
water to dilFolve it, when it was ready to boil, they skimmed it, and poured in 
five or fix quarts more of water, to make the skum rife better ; they put it in 
by fpoonfuUs, and wet the fides of the Kettle to cool them. Half an hour af- 
ter they mingled, a dozen whites of Eggs, with four or five quarts of water 
and having beat them a little with the water, all was poured into the Kettle • 
at four or five times, and then they began to skim again, till a little after, they ' 
drained it through a Cloath, and that they call clarifying of the Sugar.' Af 
terwards they divided that Liquor into three parts, of which they put a third 
into a great Kettle or Caldron over the fire ; and feeing that Sugar from time 
rotime was like to boil over, they made it fettle, by throwing-in two or three 
Egg-fhels full of Milk. When they knew it to be boiled enough, after it had 
been an hour upon the fire, they took it off; it looked then very yellow, and 
two men fet a ftirring of it with wooden peels ; fo that the more they ftirred 
it, as it grew cold it became the thicker and whiter. When it was a little 
thickened ; they put into it about two glafs-fulls of the juice of Limon boiled 
as I (hall tell you hereafter : Then they ftirred it again to mingle all well to- 
gether, and a little after they put into it about two fpoonfuUs of Rofe- water 
in which fome Musk had been diffolved, feveral adding thereto Ambergreafs. 
Then again they ftirred it till it became like a Pafte, and afterwards put it in- 
to Pots ; the fame they did with the other two parts. With an hundred and 
fifty of thefe Rottes they filled twenty nine Pots ; therein they fpent a little 
Bottle of Rofe- water, with Musk which coft a Crown, When they have a 
mind to make it of a Anolet-Colour, after the juice of Limon, they put of 
the Syrrup of Violets into it, which is made by pounding Violets with Sugar, 
which they clear from the dreggs. To make the juice of Limons, a great 
many Limons are prefied, and the juice expreffed, boiled in a Kettle • but 
the Kettle mufl: be full, and boil along while, untill the juice be reduced to 
the quantity of fix or feven quarts ; In the mean time they burn above an hun- 
dred weight of Wood, and cannot boil above two Kettle-fulls a day, that is 
above ten or twelve quarts ; it is of a blackifh red colour, fliarp and bitter! 
In the Defta^^ over againft RoJJ'etto and as far as Dawiette, there is plenty of Defïa 
fine Fowl, which the peopleof theCountrey call Garden-Cocks, that is in Dic'ei • 
Arahuk, Dicelgait: they are as big as ordinary Pullets, having the Belly and Garln-Cocks 
Wings of a violet-colour above and black below, the Head and Neck of a 
violet colour, the Back greenifh brown, a Tale like a Wood-Cock, which is 
white underneath, a long Beak like a Parrot, and a little crooked, bur of a 
lovely ted colour ; it reaches from the Crown of the Head, where there is 
a kind of a flat Plate of the fame ftutf, and all looks like Horn ; their feet are 
as big as Pullets feet, but longer and are red, but of a paler red than the 
Beak ; they keep in the Marfhes. 
At RoJJ'etto I found a bark bound for Baruth^ but becaufe there were Soldi- 
ers ready to go to CW/^, they fuffered no Sail to put oiit, leafi: the Chrifti 
ans might have advice of it. At length the Soldiers being gone for Alexan- 
dria, our bark, wherein the Aga of the Caille of RoJJ'etto had a (hare, was jy.^, 
fulFered privately to depart : So that Munday the nineteenth of March about jmn K^iVmo 
nine of the Clock in the Morning we put out. When we were almofl: at the 
mouth of the River, we were forced to fend out the Boat on head to drop an 
Anchor feveral times, thatfo we might tow our felves, till about Noon being 
got out of the River, with a Weft-South-Weft Wind we made all the fail we 
could and bore away North-Eaft- Three hours after we fteered an Eaft and 
be South courfe, the Wind having fhifted about to South- Weft, though it was 
fo fmall that we were almoft becalmed. In the Night- time we faw a great 
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