T O S M Y R N A. 17 
captain Pafcha fends a galley here while he cruizes 
m tile Archipelago to fetch the Turkifh emperor’s 
yearly tax, which is high enough confidering the 
poverty of the country and the fcarcity of money 
Ic is governed by primates, who colleft and ac- 
count for the taxes, and compound differences. 
1 he people in general are very friendly and polite. 
Hie women’s drefs is one of the oddelt and lead; 
becoming of any of the Wanders in the Archi- 
pelago. They were naked from the neck to the 
wailt and had a fhort petticoat reaching to the mid- 
e of the thigh, a loofe garment covered the 
bead, and their plaited hair hung down to the fmall 
o the back. The ifland produces forne cotton, which 
the french and Venetians buy. They alfo have 
-Vik iBru, after taking a pilot, who was to 
comma us through the Archipelago, we fet fail. 
■I-He 19 th, we faw the ifland Parfo. The 'goth 
ims, Negropoiit ; and the 21ft, we anchored on 
of N?rV TtTS Vthich is on *e continent 
Scion T had T Nat0li ^n the one fide and 
Suo on the other. I went on fhore the fame day, 
c ! ° Und -f^ t0 reward m y labour ’ except the 
comn o n wild 1 hyme. Haliotis (Scar Ear) and Pu- 
h en T Umice done ) were tllc °ther naturalia found 
0PD0n E rnV 5th, 7r W Undcr Scio ’ and had an 
‘ ^ °* ‘ eein S its handfome town, wdiich 
nardnnQ ne a PP earancc ? but the plantations and 
Prod ri 1 ' 6 / m ° re material ornament, as they 
produce the famous Maftix. 
and had'lV^’ p Ve came in the Gulph of Smyrna, 
and itad^Natoha on both fides. 
end nf r„~ r ^’ ^ C dad bbe t0 have made an unfortunate 
voyage, at a time we thought our mif- 
C fortunes 
