Part IL Travels into the L e v a n t. î 8 5 
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Behind the fourth Rock, at feme diftance there is another fo big, that it ap- 
\ipears to be main Land, but it is an Ifland, and makes a Channel betwixt it 
^od the main Land, which is deep, but very narrow. Some Englijh one day 
beïhg haU drunk, and having a good Wind, would needs in a frolick Sail through 
that Channel, but fo foon as they were got in, the Wind failed them, and (hey A daiigeroui 
were in great danger of fplitting againft the Rock, however they preferved them- V^^è^' 
felves with Fenders and Poles, but not without a great deal of trouble, and were 
fufficiently feared before they got out again if it had blown hard, they muft in- 
fallibly have been fplit » for it is impoflible to come to Anchor there, there being 
nothing but Rock at the bottom. 
A quarter after eight, the Wind chopt about to l^ajl^ and we flood away North 
and by Eaji^ having then Lareca to the North-Eafi, and by North of us « and the 
great Rock with its neighbour to Sonth-Eaji^ and by Ea(i^ and the other that is 
feparated to the Seutb-Eaji. In going to Comoron one may Sail betwixt ^uefchimo 
and Lareca, which are but a League and a half diflant from one another ■■, though 
the Map makes this Streight five Leagues over : or elfe betwixt Lareca and Ormus, A fault Itl • 
according as the Wind ferve?. Ormus is to the North-Eaji of Lareca, and a Geography^ 
League from it. From Bifjfora to Ormusy or to Cape Mofandon, which is near to 
it, it is a hundred and fourfcore Leagues. The Cape of Mofandon lyes in twenty 
feven degrees of North Latitude, and that is alfo the Latitude of Ormus whidi, 
(as I juft now faid,) is very near to it. , . 
After noon the Wind quite ceafed, fo that at five a Clock at night we were be- 
calmed, and turned the Ships Head South-Ea(l and by South. At fix a Clock at 
night we had a breeze from North, Nsrth-Eafl, but fo weak that it could hardly 
move the Sails, and we Steered away Eaft. About half an hour after nine, it 
fhifted about to Eafi, and we flood away North. About half an hour after ten, it 
blew frelher, and having heaved the Lead, we found two and thirty Fathom wa- 
ter. Towards midnight we tacked, and bore away South and by Eaft. 
Ertdi^ the eleventh of December, about four a Clock in the morning, v^e tacked 
again, and flood North and by EaU. At break of day we were clofe in with the 
point of ^efchimo, having to the Right Hand alfo the Ifles of Lareca and Ormus 
very near us. At feven a Clock in the morning, we tacked, and flood away South 
and by Eaft. Three quarters after feven, the Wind fliifting to South-Eaft, wc 
Steered North-Eaft. About half an hour after ten, we found twenty eight Fa- 
thom water, and only eighteen at noon but a quarter of an hour after, wc had 
three and twenty. Half an hour after twelve a Clock, it Rained at little, which 
was followed by Hail-flones as big as fmall Nuts, and exaétly round, except in one An extraordi- 
fide which was flat and fmooth i and thefe flones were fo clear and tranfparent » wry Hail, 
that one might eafily fee within them little white Rofes of fix blunt points, with a 
little white Circle about their Center, and in the middle a White point, which 
was exadly the Center, according to the defcriptlon that Vefcartes has given us of 
thefe Meteors. This Hail was the beginning of a great Storm, and therefore we 
quickly furled all our Sails, and fcarcely was that done, when the Storm broke with 
great fury and noife: it began with fuch loud Thunder-daps, that I never heard ^ great Tcm- 
the like : on one fide we faw a Rain Bow, and on Head, the Air as black as it could ^ 
be, halt an hour after Sun fet. 
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