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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42320	An account of a late voyage to Athens containing the estate both ancient and modern of that famous city, and of the present empire of the Turks, the life of the now Sultan Mahomet the IV, with the Ministry of the Grand Vizier Coprogli Achmet Pacha : also the most remarkable passages in the Turkish camp at the siege of Candia and divers other particularities of the affairs of the port / by Monsieur de La Gvillatiere, a French gentleman ; now Englished.; Athènes ancienne et nouvelle et l'estat présent de l'empire des Turcs. English	Guillet de Saint-Georges, Georges, 1625-1705.	1676 (1676)	Wing G2218; ESTC R13895	179,653	425

and next ● that stands Sapico built out of the ruines ● Acriae The next Town to Sapico is Por● Rapani or Rapini where the City of ● ronthrae stood formerly where there ● also excellent springs The Port of Rap●●● is discernible afar off especially from ● S. S. E. by reason of two very round Mo●●tains in the mouth of the Harbour Ab●●● two Leagues distance towards the S. E. ● the Esapo or Esopo which was the Anci●●● Asopu● The Inhabitants of which place ● the time of the Roman Dominion having Observ'd that many great Towns had Consecrated Temples to particular Emperours erected a new one and dedicated it to all the Emperours past present and to come Eight Leagues S. E. of Asopus lies the Cape of Sancta Maria which Cape was by the Ancients call'd Onugnato or the Jaw-bone of an Ass South West of the Cape de Sancta Maria in the Chanel of Cerigo lies the Island of Cervi call'd formerly Platanistunte This Island and the Island of Cerigo lie North East and South West one of another The Isle of Cervi lies a good League from the Terra firma and the Isle of Cerigo from the Isle of Cervi four Leagues The froth of the Canal that formerly parted these two Islands was the occasion of the birth of Venus who was carried in the shell of a Fish to the Isle of Cerigo call'd formerly Cythe●ea The Venetians the present Masters of this Island have a good Castle upon the top of a Mountain the Coasts of it are all very high particularly those towards the firm Land The anchoring in some places is but indifferent but on the East and South side it is very good To the Eastward of Sancta Maria not far from the Cape of St. Angelo lies the Gulf of Lavadia with a great Town of the same name Here was the Ancient City o● Boeae built of old by one of the Sons o● Hercules The whole Coast abounds with Myrtles as formerly when Diana her sel● made choice of it For her Town of Boeae ● and the Town of St. Angelo which give● name to the Cape are not far from it Thi● Cape was call'd Anciently Malea and is a● this day call'd Maleo by several good Pilots It lies E. N. E. of the Cape de Matapan affording a large Spring which run● out of a Cave and great store of people On Wednesday the 10. of April the wind blowing cross from the Eastward we wer● obliged to slacken our sails but coming fair the next day we doubled the Cape and steer'd Northward in sight of the Wester● Coast of the Country of the Lacedemonians or Laconia which in vulgar Greek i● at this day call'd Tzaconia and sometime● Saccania The thirteenth of April the da● before Palm Sunday we met an English Vessel betwixt the Isle of Caravi eight good Leagues from the Cape de St. Angelo an● the Island of Bella Pola that is ten Th● Island or Rock of Caravi is a black Roc● of the figure of a Ship from whence it receives the name of Caravi which in common Greek is a Ship The English Vesse● had furl'd the sails of her main Mast attending another English Ship of her Company but not so good a sailer not long after the wind came about to the East but blew so gently that we were becalm'd for some hours This gave opportunity to the English Gentleman call'd as I take it Dreslington to go on board that Vessel to see if he could find any of his Friends that could give him any news from Constantinople from whence that Vessel came and the wind beginning to blow again in six hours he returned The said Gentleman had learn'd there that every moment news was expected of the surrender of Candia That for some dayes it had been reported and believed that the Grand Signior was killed by a fall from his horse as he was hunting upon the Mountains of Thessaly not far from Larissa but that the last Post had assured them that the fall was not considerable and that the Grand Signior was very well After this he gave us a relation of a great insolence that had been committed at Pera towards Monsieur Hodges Treasurer to the English Company in the Levant Hodges being return'd from taking the air with some other persons of Quality of his own Nation and not giving way to a black Eunuch who belonged to the Seraglio and was passing on horseback thorow the same street was treated with insufferable ill language and indeed such as strangers may well expect from the ferocity of the Turks upon which our English Camerade took occasion to enquire how a man was to comport himself in Constantinople other advised him above all things to be cautious of entertaining intrigues with the Ladies and remonstrated the danger of them by an account he gave of an amorous adventure in which the person that related it had a particular share It is fresh enough in my memory and I will give you a recital but with no farther assurance that it is true than the bare asseveration of the Gentleman who told it And this I hope will be a testimony of my complacency and how much respect I bear to your desire that I should communicate eve● the slightest adventures in my travels An old shew Jew who traffick'd in Jewel● in the best houses of Constantinople drov● a Trade likewise with such strangers as arrived at Pera and her access was the mor● easie because she spake Spanish perfectly well which as you know is at this day ● language common to all the Jews in Greece She was a Woman of intrigue and he● brains were not alwayes working upon he● Jewels Her greatest Commerce was with young Ladies whose Husbands were either slain or absent at Candia Among the rest She had a particular intimacy with a very pretty one called Majunama whose Husband was at that time attending the Grand Visier About six months before the good old Jew had fixt her eye on a young Neopolitan Gentleman who was arrived at Constantinople to take a view of that place and proceed afterwards in his Journey quite thorow the Grand Signiors Country He was a handsom man about eight and twenty years old and appeared to be a person of Quality The old Jew immediately had her designs upon him mentioned Majunama to him and him to Majunama and order'd things so that Majunama had as great curiosity to see him It is most certain these practises are more difficult there than any where yet it does not follow that every thing that is difficult is impossible and the greatest obstacles were removed by a certain dexterity the old Woman had in disguising young men in the habit of her Slaves when she had a mind to introduce them among the Ladies The Neopolitan was timerous and circumspect and would not be brought to such an enterview but with great caution and forecast Besides the fear of her Relations and the unexpected return of her Husband

and her nostril that if possible we might find out whether in the structure and fabrick of this fish there might not be some secret analogie with the Inwards of a man to which for want of better reason we might ascribe their kindness and strange inclination to our Sex But we discover'd that the inclination of Man was more powerful to them for the Italian Marriners would not endure that we should do them any mischief calling them the Companions of their Voyage and the faithful Sentinels who by their leaping and playing upon the Waters do give them constant notice of any tempest approaching and by this means our Experiment was lost But the sight of Tenara gave us another contemplation The passage into Hell if you will believe the Antients is there and Cerberus tyed there by Proserpine to guard it This is certain on the middle of the Mountain there is a dismal hole to be seen that was formerly consecrated to Neptune the entrance is so horrid and the depth so immense that it gave occasion to that opinion that it went down into Hell That it was by that Hercules descended Hector'd Pluto in the midst of his Estates and in defiance of him brought away his Three-headed Dog 'T is the common opinion at this day quite through the Brazzo di Maina that by this hole the Devil comes out a hunting every day in the shape of a Hound In this Mountain Tenara there was found formerly good Crystal of the Rock several sorts of Metals and some Precious Stones The Greeks say the Veins are as fruitful as ever but that the Inhabitants conceal it for fear it should invite the Turks and bring them sooner into their Country At the foot of Cape Matapan towards the N. N. E. the old Castle is to be seen from this Castle the Coast runs two Leagues N.E. as far as the Port of Colocythia called anciently the Port of Achilles There the anchoring is good but not so good as at Porto-Caglie a Haven about seven Leagues distance from the Cape To enter into the Harbour at Porto-Caglie we kept to the Southward Coast where we found sixteen Fathom water Towards the North within Pistol-shot of the Shore great care is to be had of a Rock which is the more dangerous because it lies almost just level with the water Our Anchorage here is in danger of nothing but a South-East wind The Town is large and in it one of the best Fountains in the world it was called in former days Teuthrone and was once a Colony of Athenians Here it is that the Sea makes a great Arch in the Shore to form the Gulf of Colochina heretofore called the Gulf of Laconia In this manner our Vessel sailed on to the Southward of Saint Angelo where we were to double the Point On the Shore from Porto-Caglie towards the North we found the place which was called in former times the Temple of Jupiter and two large Rivers where the Barks did frequently supply themselves with fresh water The River that lies Northward of the other retains still the quality of its water which passed among the Ancients for the most pure and delicate and least subject to corruption in all Greece The Inhabitants call it only Potamo which signifies a River but Pyrrhus called it Scyras from the name of the Island Scyros where he Imbarqued when he came into this Country to his Nuptials with Hermione Beyond the River the Coast runs into a Point upon which stands the Town of Pagana which name though it be the most commonly given it is called likewise Pago Gade Pagou or to pronounce it more justly Cape de Pago the Ancients called it the Promontory of Diana Dictynna and the Town is built of the ruines of the old City Las its scituation is easily known by three Mountains Hama Ilion and Cuacadion formerly famous for the Trophies erected there after the Macedonian defeat as likewise for the Temples which Castor and Pollux built in that place at their return from the Conquest of the Fleece About half a League S.W. from Pagana is the little Island called Spatara and three Leagues E. N. E. o● Spatara lies the City of Colochina upon the firm land near the mouth of the famous River Eurothas which passes by Mysithre o● Lacedaemon as you please On the eighth of April in the morning as we were within sight of Pagana the win● began to rise and increased so fast tha● we grew fearful of a Storm It drove us near enough the Shore to discover the large and long Reeds which grow in the mouth of the Eurotas and they put us in mind of the Lacedemonians who made Mats of them formerly to lie upon This River is now called Bazili Potamo or the Royal River and might be made Navigable seven or eight Leagues up for there is water enough but then it is so narrow there is not room to turn and scarce for another Vessel to pass Our apprehension of ill weather made us resolve to put in at the little Isle of Spatara formerly famous by the name of Cranaz But what think you did we find in a little Creek where we put in for shelter because the anchorage was good We found two Vessels who coming the same road with us and driven with the same wind had put in there not above two hours before You will be surprized when I tell you that one of those Vessels was the Christian Corsair who had changed his Colours upon us so often and treated us so insolently The other was a Turkish Vessel laden with Janizaries for Candia that the Corsair had taken after very great resistance and it was the noise of that Combate that we had heard when we were off of Matapan Lest the Corsair should begin a new Quarel with us on point of Ceremony we Saluted him and Lowr'd our Sails We had scarce come to an anchor when by good fortune the Wind veer'd to the South and a great Rain falling the Storm ceased Our Captain sent his Shallop a shore and in it his Mate to salute the Pirate our curiosity would needs make us accompany the Mate where we found the Pirate very busie his Vessel shot through and through in several places took water in such plenty that all her Pumps though they wrought continually were not sufficient to clear her This was a manifest sign that the Turk had defended herself well but we perceived also that the Turk had been as ill treated for her Tackling was in the greatest disorder imaginable no Sails no Cables no Masts but every thing in most desperate condition and the relation we had of it was this The Sangiac or Governour of Modon had sent a Turkish Vessel with Ammunition and three hundred Janizaries to the Siege of Candy It was the misfortune of this Ship to meet our Corsair in the same height of debauchery and the same impatience of being at mischief as we left him so that without the