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and there was no other way left to fatisfy the reft, bat 
by telling them, that if they would retire further into 
the Country, they would be fafe therey and that if the 
Caftle was in Danger, yet they muft neceffarily fee the 
LefTer JCammeni firft entirely deftroyed, not only becaufe 
it lay between the Caftle and the Black Ifland, but alfo 
becaufe it was much nearer to it than to the Caftle. 
Thelurks , who were then at Santorini, colle&ing the 
Tribute which this Ifland pays yearly to the Grand 
Signior , were not lefs afraid than the other People : 
Being amazed to fee Fire break out of the Sea where it 
was fo deep, they intreated the Chriftians to pray to 
God, and especially to make their young Children cry 
Kirie Eleifon ^ becaufe, as they faid, the Children not ha- 
ving offended God, they could more eafily appeafe his 
Anger than older Perfons. The Fire, iiowever, was 
then but very little, being not above the breadth of the 
Mou.h of a Furnace, and did not appear in the Day 
time, but only in the Night, from Sun fetting to Sun > 
riling 5 and was fo far from fpreading the whole length 
of the Ridge of Stones above-mention’d, that it pof- 
fefs’d but one fmall part of it, which was always after- 
wards the common Pafiage for the Smoak and Fire, 
which I (hall fpeak of hereafter. 
As for the firft Ifland, or White Ifland, we did not 
fee there eirher Fire or Smoak $ yet it conrinued to grow 
bigger 5 but the Black Ifland increafed much fafter. We 
faw every Day great Rocks rife up on every fide of it, 
which made it fometimes longer, and at other times 
broader 5 and by the Height of them we could very nearly 
judge bow many Foot it role up every Day or Night.' . 
Sometimes thefe Rocks joyned to the Ifland, and at o- 
ther times they were at a diftance from it 5 fo that in 
lefs than a Month, there Were four little Black Iflands, 
which in a few Days after, united together, and made 
but one Ifland. 
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