%y.\n the Afternoon we weighed out of / vor?ie Road, 
arid lailed by the Iflands Gorgonia and Capraria , feeing 
Corfica at a diftance. 
x8. We lay beating at Sea all this day , the Wind be- 
ing contrary. 
29. This day we were forced back,the contray Winds 
ftill continuing, 
30. We weighed a fecond time, and failed by three 
fmall Iflands, Capraria^ Tlanafia^zxidi Monte Chrijii. We 
faw alfo GtgiodindSamti , two other fmall !flands near 
the Main : but we made but little way, by reason of ill 
Weather for four or five days. 
Noveml. 5-. At Evening we faw the Eruptions of fire 
frcm Stromboliy^\i\c\\ lies to the N'W^.of 5/c//)'.Sometimes 
it flamed very bright light as a Beacon^ at other times 
there appeared only a glorious kind of Light, like that of 
an ordinary Star when the Air is thick and hazy. They 
lay that it flames moft in rainy Weather. 
<5. In the Morning we were up within a League of it', 
and plainly perceived it to fmoke. It is of a round fi- 
gure, and, as we gathered, may be about three or four 
Miles in compafs. It bore W, by S, of us. Not far from 
it lye fcattered feveral other Iflands, called by the An- 
cients /EoUce and Vulcant(B : among which are Ltpara^ a 
long fiattifti Ifland, and Vukandlo^ which fmokes moft. 
This Afternoon we came to an Anchor in eight Fathom 
Water in the Thare of Mejfim, in the mid Stream between 
Scylla and Cbaryldu : a violent and ftrong Current fet- 
ting sgainft us, and the Wind not high enough, (o as to 
be able to ftemm it.The breadth of the Strait from Mef- 
Jtm to Rhegium miy bQzhout a League. The Land is 
very high on the Calalrian fide, where are very fteep 
Rocks, and great depth of Water, above 1 50 Fathom, as 
they told us : but on the Sicilian, fide, near Charyhdis 
Shole-w ater,and ufually an Eddy. On the Sandy Banks 
ftands 
