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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21024	A voyage to Mount Libanus wherein is an account of the customs, manners, &c. of the Turks : also a description of Candia, Nicosia, Tripoly, Alexandretta, &c. : with curious remarks upon several passages re[l]ating to the Turks & Maronites / written originally in Italian by the R. F. Jerome Dandini.; Missione apostolica al patriarca de' Maroniti del Monte Libano. English	Dandini, Girolamo, 1554-1634.	1698 (1698)	Wing D168	76,284	146

Venetians There is also on the same hand Buzo and Elisa which are inhabited by Christians and belong to the same Venetians We discovered afterwards on the same side Gaza Arista Meleda which belong to the Republick of Ragusa Casaro and Budua subject to the Venetians And we saw also at a great distance the famous City of Ragusa further are Cluticari Deleigno Durazzo Sasamo Vallona and Cimarra governed and inhabited by the Turks A little further is also a Rock called Fano uninhabited belonging to the Signiory of Venice as well as Corfu Ce●alonia Zant Strivalli All these places are inhabited by Christian Greeks A little further we discovered Navarino Sapienza Cavogallo and Camatapano which are subject to the Turks And further again upon the Left is Cerigo and on the Right Cerigoso depending upon the Venetians Finally as we continued to look on that side we discovered the Island of Candia which we had longed to see and where we arrived safe a little while after CHAP. III. Of the Isle and City of Candia IN all the course of our Sailing we cast Anchor no where but here and that we were obliged to do because our Ship carry'd 60 Venetian Soldiers which were to be put there on shoar leaving therefore the Cape St. John or Cape Lion to the South and following the Cape Spada which is to the North sometime called Cimario we Anchored at Frashia on the 13th of the same Month half an hour after Sun-set being 8 Miles distant from the City of Candia and as we were obliged to sojourn there for some time we went ashoar next day in a Galley that came to fetch the Soldiers This Isle called by the Ancients Creet is much samed for its bigness for it is 560 Miles in circumference 250 long and 60 Miles over where 't is broadest it is much celebrated by the Ancients who believed as did their Poets that it was the Country of the Gods and that Jupiter was Nursed up there on Mount Ida not to mention its famous Labyrinth which they hold to have been near to the ancient City of Cortina and of the excellent Laws of Rodamanthus and Minos who governed the People after Jupiter and founded the Republick of Creet This Island had once an hundred Cities altho' Homer in his Odyssees allows it but 90 there remains not at this day but four which are Canea Retimo Candia to the West and Sittia to the East Candea and Canea are the best besides that there are in it two Ports called Spina Longa and Sude not to speak of other Places fit for Anchorage The City of Candia stands in the middle of the Island a dozen Miles distant from the Grot of Minos and very near to Mount Ida it is indeed a very great and spacious City but much ruined by Earthquakes The Houses are almost all built with Gravel yet the Buildings are not unhandsome they have no Tiles but there and in all the Levant except at Antioch have Terrasses of Lime or of some other Matter well made with Spouts on the sides for to let the Water run out Probably they use such sort of Buildings because they are not so Curious and Industrious as we however I believe they cover their Houses in that manner out of frugality to the end they may as well spread Cloth and Linnen there for to be whitened as to sleep in Summer Nights thereon for the coolness of the Air when the excessive heat hinders them to remain in their Houses When they would repose themselves upon the Terrass they spread thereon a Mat and sometimes over that a Carpet and sleep in that manner exposed to the Air which is very sweet in those Parts and no ways injurious to health The use also of their Terrasses might proceed in that they have seldom any Rain for there falls not oftentimes a drop of Water for six Months together and I understood that they had had no Rain since the second day of February neither did they expect any till November The Streets of that City are streight but very nasty the Republick of Venice kept a Garison of 2000 Soldiers about it part of which were Posted in a Citadel upon the Sea-side and the rest disposed in other Places There is also some Garison in Canea The rest of the Inhabitants are almost all Greeks amongst whom there remains yet some noble Venetians for that Boniface Marquis of Montferat having sold them that Island in the Year 1194. they transported thither some Families of the Nobility and Citizens for to inhabit the Place It was afterwards retaken in 1349. after a Revolt and since that time they have enjoyed it peaceably The Country is very Mountanous and almost Barren one can see there also but few Trees and Herbs but yet it follows not but that it hath Plains of many Miles extent fertile in Grain Trees Olives Oranges Lemons and all other sort of Commodities Moreover there grow Berries for to dry Cloth withal much Wax there is and Honey Cheese and Medicinal Herbs so that 't is very good Living there There is also a great quantity of excellent Wines whereof the most estimable is Muscadine insomuch that those that know it not take it for Malmsey but they are mistaken for it comes from a little Island that bears the Name of it The goodness of the Wines of Candia renders the Natives great Drunkards and it happens sometimes that two or three great Drinkers will set themselves at the head of a Tun of Wine from whence they will not stir till they have emptied it There is no venemous Animal to be found in that Country so that they are not afraid of Scorpions Serpents Toads neither can you see there a Wolf Tyger nor any other the like Beast so that they live there in great repose both Night and Day Persons of approved Faith have told me a remarkable thing there which hath also been written of by good Authors to wit That there is growing upon Mount Ida which hath been shewed me at a distance an Herb whose Vertue was to gild the Teeth of those Animals that eat of it one may believe and with good reason that that proceeds from the golden Mines which are in that ground There grows also a certain Herb called Alincos which being bitter preventeth ones being hungry for a whole day but that which is wonderfully surprizing and beyond the force of Nature are certain pieces of Money which they call St. Helens that are found up and down the Fields where there is also Brass and other Silver They pretend that that Saint happening to be in that Country without Money made some of Brass which in passing of them changed into Silver this Money they say hath the vertue to this day to cure the Falling-Sickness in them that hold it to their Hand or apply it to their Flesh The Custom of the Women of this Island is not to go out of their Houses in the day time no not to go