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DEPARTURE FROM ZAXTF.
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hould ther peace, and lett me tell them my adventurs.
When I had toulde them all the storie, they wondered at
my bouldnes, and some Grekes that weare thare saydc
that they never hard that any Inglishe man was ever thare
before. It was than aboute 12 of the clocke, and nyne
of these Jentlmcn would needes go presently thether to se
That which I had done, and bcause I would not go againe,
bcinge wearic, for it was 4 myles thether, they hiered a gidc,
and yeate, when they came to the mountaine, they myste
of the Ryghtc way, and did climbe upon the Rockes, so
that som of them gott fales and broke there shins ; but at
laste they got thether, and the wave for them by me
beinge preparede, thei weare bid verrie welcom ; but there
gide hade Instrucktede them with that which I never thought
on, the which was, that at ther firste cominge they should
go Into the chappell, and thar offer som mony, as litle as
they would, and than theye should have all kinde enter-
tainmente. So, verrie late in the evininge, they Returned
safly againe, and gave me thankes for that which theye
had sene.
The 30th day I wente with 3 more, havinge a Greke to
show us the way into the Castle.
Maye.
The firste day of maye we saw there greatest traverses1
or sportcs that they have in all the yeare, for that day
dothe meete at the toune of Zante all the able men of the
Greeks with there best horsis and artillerie, which is nothingc
but staves to Rvne at the Ringe, or at quintan.- They
borroed our five trompateres to sounde whe[n] they Run at
1 " Many shiftes and subtle traverses were overwrought by this
occasion." {Proceedings against Garnet, 1606.)
- A game with a beam and sack of sand.
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hould ther peace, and lett me tell them my adventurs.
When I had toulde them all the storie, they wondered at
my bouldnes, and some Grekes that weare thare saydc
that they never hard that any Inglishe man was ever thare
before. It was than aboute 12 of the clocke, and nyne
of these Jentlmcn would needes go presently thether to se
That which I had done, and bcause I would not go againe,
bcinge wearic, for it was 4 myles thether, they hiered a gidc,
and yeate, when they came to the mountaine, they myste
of the Ryghtc way, and did climbe upon the Rockes, so
that som of them gott fales and broke there shins ; but at
laste they got thether, and the wave for them by me
beinge preparede, thei weare bid verrie welcom ; but there
gide hade Instrucktede them with that which I never thought
on, the which was, that at ther firste cominge they should
go Into the chappell, and thar offer som mony, as litle as
they would, and than theye should have all kinde enter-
tainmente. So, verrie late in the evininge, they Returned
safly againe, and gave me thankes for that which theye
had sene.
The 30th day I wente with 3 more, havinge a Greke to
show us the way into the Castle.
Maye.
The firste day of maye we saw there greatest traverses1
or sportcs that they have in all the yeare, for that day
dothe meete at the toune of Zante all the able men of the
Greeks with there best horsis and artillerie, which is nothingc
but staves to Rvne at the Ringe, or at quintan.- They
borroed our five trompateres to sounde whe[n] they Run at
1 " Many shiftes and subtle traverses were overwrought by this
occasion." {Proceedings against Garnet, 1606.)
- A game with a beam and sack of sand.