il o TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
to his and their misfortune, the Prince was dead 
when one of the fervants, returned, though within 
two hours. An Engliih merchant, who had long lived 
in Ifpahan without company, took Opium to pafs 
away his melancholy hours. This pernicious re- 
frelhment became at lafl fo neceffary, that, to 
avoid any misfortune which might happen, if he 
were once to be without it, he ordered fmall bag* 
of Opium to be fewedin his apparel and bed-clothes, 
that he might always have a fufficient quantity 
about him. 
We anchored before Stanchio the 12th of JuiyV 
having been informed that the plague was not there, 
but on the oppofite coaft, and in the country or 
Katolia. However, to be more careful, we did 
not venture on Ihore, but only fent our boat f or 
water, which was the moll neceffary article that 
we wanted. Stanchio has no harbour, but the 
veffels muff anchor in the gulph, at the diftanc? 
of a cannon-fhot from the Ihore between the 
ifl and and the continent, to which the entrance 
on both fides is pretty narrow ; but its road is wide 
and open, for which reafon veffels feldom anchor 
before Stanchio in the winter, but rather go to the 
oppofite fliore, where they find fmall harbours h 
the continent, in which they lie more fecure. There 
is a fpring on Stanchio, fix miles from the town, 
which the inhabitants call the fountain of HipP 0 ' 
crates : I could not learn whether this name is to bf 
attributed to the ancient Grecians, in which cafe d 
would be the only monument now remaining, in th 
place of the nativity of this great father of phy 1 ^' 
It is alfo poffible, that fome Venetian phyiicia < 
when the Venetians poffeffed this illand, gave t ^ 
fountain this name, to revive the name of the g 1 c ‘\ 
eft man the illand ever produced. The Greek ^ 
drop of this illand hath 5000 piafters revenue^ 
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