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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9697#0083
AT ZANTE.
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dothc tow dayes in the weeke hould a courte, and heare
diverse causes, as well of the Grekes as of the Vcnition
and Italians ; for this ilande is under the Ducke of Venis,
but he houldes it under the greate Turkc, and Dothe
pa)/e tribute yearlye or quarterly for it. The grcateste
parte of the people in this ilande be Greekes, and theye
doo labur harde in planting and triminge the corron (cur-
rant) gardins, ollive gardins, and vinyards. Hear growethe
verric litlc corne, but from hence comethe the moste of
our Corrance and bestc ayle (oil) ; thar is also good
wync. There provition of breade, beefe, gotese, shepe, and
swyne and pullin (fowls), they have it from Castle Turne1
in Morea, the which place is neare the playnes of Arcadia,
whear plentie of catle ar. The Providore, and those which
ar nexte unto him in office, whome they do cale sinyors of
healthe, would not suffer us to com on shore because we
came from Argeare, whear Turks do live, and we broughtc
from thence som Turkes in our shipp ; yeate, at the End of
six dayes, we had proticke,2 which is, Leve to com a shore.
The order thar is, that all Those which doo com out of any
parte of Turkie, havinge not a letter of healthe from som
Venition or Ittalion, mustc remayne ether a borde the ship,
or in the prison which they do cale the lazerett, for ten
Dayes; yf in the meane time any man hapene to be sicke,
they muste all reste thare for ten dayes more, and so still
for ten Dayes untill the have there healthe.
Whylcste we laye thus for sixe dayes upon the seae
before the townc, I touke greate notis of a little moun-
tayne, the which, as I thought, did ly close to the seae, and
seined to be a verric plcasante place to take a vcw of the
whole Hand and the seae before it. It showed to be verrie
grecne and playen ground on the tope of it, and a whytc
thingc lyke a rocke in the mydlc tharof. I touke suche
1 Castcl Tornese.
2 Pratique.
C 2
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dothc tow dayes in the weeke hould a courte, and heare
diverse causes, as well of the Grekes as of the Vcnition
and Italians ; for this ilande is under the Ducke of Venis,
but he houldes it under the greate Turkc, and Dothe
pa)/e tribute yearlye or quarterly for it. The grcateste
parte of the people in this ilande be Greekes, and theye
doo labur harde in planting and triminge the corron (cur-
rant) gardins, ollive gardins, and vinyards. Hear growethe
verric litlc corne, but from hence comethe the moste of
our Corrance and bestc ayle (oil) ; thar is also good
wync. There provition of breade, beefe, gotese, shepe, and
swyne and pullin (fowls), they have it from Castle Turne1
in Morea, the which place is neare the playnes of Arcadia,
whear plentie of catle ar. The Providore, and those which
ar nexte unto him in office, whome they do cale sinyors of
healthe, would not suffer us to com on shore because we
came from Argeare, whear Turks do live, and we broughtc
from thence som Turkes in our shipp ; yeate, at the End of
six dayes, we had proticke,2 which is, Leve to com a shore.
The order thar is, that all Those which doo com out of any
parte of Turkie, havinge not a letter of healthe from som
Venition or Ittalion, mustc remayne ether a borde the ship,
or in the prison which they do cale the lazerett, for ten
Dayes; yf in the meane time any man hapene to be sicke,
they muste all reste thare for ten dayes more, and so still
for ten Dayes untill the have there healthe.
Whylcste we laye thus for sixe dayes upon the seae
before the townc, I touke greate notis of a little moun-
tayne, the which, as I thought, did ly close to the seae, and
seined to be a verric plcasante place to take a vcw of the
whole Hand and the seae before it. It showed to be verrie
grecne and playen ground on the tope of it, and a whytc
thingc lyke a rocke in the mydlc tharof. I touke suche
1 Castcl Tornese.
2 Pratique.
C 2