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DALLAM'S TRAVELS.
for after he that broughte it had talked privetly with our
mayster, he gave him leve to Departe, and to take all his;
presente with him ; but it muche greved our sayles (sailors),
for som offesers of our shipp wente abordc that shipp
whyles he was talkinge with our mayster, and they founde
by the pursseres bouke that theye had ten thousand
Dolleres worthe of Spaynishe goodcs a borde. But our
Mr. having recaved som secrite bribe, he sayed that the
shipe and good came from Sio,1 wheare Mr. Willyam Auld-
ridge was consell, with other idle reasons, and tharfore he
would not take anythinge from him ; and so the ship
went awaye. Than we paste by Malta. The 17th clave
we gave chace to another shipp of Massillia,2 and borded
here, but had litle or nothinge from her. Than we crost
the gulfe of Venis.
The 19th we discried lande in Gricia.
The 20th daye we paste by Saffranee, leavinge it on our
leftc hande. At this porte of Saffrancc:i thare be tow
touncs, and a moste singuler good harbcr. Neare unto it is
the Hand caled Sante, but rether Zantc. The same Daye we
came to an anker before the greate toune of that ilande, the
which theye Do call Zantc, by the name of the ilande ;
thar is also a good harbur. The tcunc or Cittie of Zantc
is Cittiwated cloce to the seae, and is a good mylc in
lengthe ; behinde it, upon a verrie hie and stepie hill, Dothc
stande a large platforme of a castell, whearin Dothe live the
governcr of that castell and towne ; he is caled the Pro-
vidore.4 Within the wales of this castell is diverse other
dwelers, and many housis ; within that place the Providore
1 Chios. 2 Marseilles.
3 Saffranee = Sovrano, or Windward, the modern Bay of Argostoli
in Cephalonia.
4 Each of the Ionian Islands was governed by a Provcditorc from
Venice until the downfall of the Republic in 1797.
DALLAM'S TRAVELS.
for after he that broughte it had talked privetly with our
mayster, he gave him leve to Departe, and to take all his;
presente with him ; but it muche greved our sayles (sailors),
for som offesers of our shipp wente abordc that shipp
whyles he was talkinge with our mayster, and they founde
by the pursseres bouke that theye had ten thousand
Dolleres worthe of Spaynishe goodcs a borde. But our
Mr. having recaved som secrite bribe, he sayed that the
shipe and good came from Sio,1 wheare Mr. Willyam Auld-
ridge was consell, with other idle reasons, and tharfore he
would not take anythinge from him ; and so the ship
went awaye. Than we paste by Malta. The 17th clave
we gave chace to another shipp of Massillia,2 and borded
here, but had litle or nothinge from her. Than we crost
the gulfe of Venis.
The 19th we discried lande in Gricia.
The 20th daye we paste by Saffranee, leavinge it on our
leftc hande. At this porte of Saffrancc:i thare be tow
touncs, and a moste singuler good harbcr. Neare unto it is
the Hand caled Sante, but rether Zantc. The same Daye we
came to an anker before the greate toune of that ilande, the
which theye Do call Zantc, by the name of the ilande ;
thar is also a good harbur. The tcunc or Cittie of Zantc
is Cittiwated cloce to the seae, and is a good mylc in
lengthe ; behinde it, upon a verrie hie and stepie hill, Dothc
stande a large platforme of a castell, whearin Dothe live the
governcr of that castell and towne ; he is caled the Pro-
vidore.4 Within the wales of this castell is diverse other
dwelers, and many housis ; within that place the Providore
1 Chios. 2 Marseilles.
3 Saffranee = Sovrano, or Windward, the modern Bay of Argostoli
in Cephalonia.
4 Each of the Ionian Islands was governed by a Provcditorc from
Venice until the downfall of the Republic in 1797.