'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎79] (116/1024)

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The twentieth we let Sail, having the Wind at Weft-South-Weft, and a frefti
ofte * fo that upon the twenty-third we difcover d the Coaft of the AJorea, to which,
we approach’d t'o near, as to delay N*v*n>i. In the Evening we faw the City of
where there is a great Trade for Sallet-Oyl. From thence it was that the
Great Turk Embarqu’d lor Candy in the year 1645.
The twenty-fourth the Wind was at Eaft-North-Eaft. In the Morning we difco-
ver’d the Cape of OMatapan, which is the moft Southern Point of Land m i-e,
Ivin’ 1 in the Alorea, and at Noon the liland of Chtrgigo. , Tn ,
^ The twenty-fifth we drew near Cyprus, and delay d a Mountain in that Ifland
call’d Camcliere, with fome other Promontories toward the .South. ,,
From the twenty-ieventh day’till we came to Jkxandrem , we percelv d the
Sea to be all over cover’d with Pumice-ftones, which happen d from an Earth-
(luahe that had forfome time before fwallow’d up the llland ot Santorini. Some
think, that it proceeded from the abundance of Sulphur, of which that Country is
f l W hich took Fire, and was the death of above 7 5 ° of thelllanders, that were
mrtly buried in the Ruines, andpartly dy’dout of fear They that remain cl aUve
black like Charcoal; and the Vapours that aicended out of the A by ft full yd
all the Silver as far as Conftannnopic h the noife of the Earthquake being heard as far
Twenty-ninth by break of day we difcover’d the Ifland ofCyt^. ^ ’
The’ firft of OBoher by eight in the Morning we came to an Anchor before Salines,
which is one of the Ports of Cyprus, where our Conluls live. Here I ask d feveral
of the Chriftians of the Country, how they did to live and pay their Caraoe . Who
told me that it was with a great deal of difficulty, in regard the Ifland was very bare
of Money * which was the reafon that many Chnftians turn d ^W.er^vtoavo.d
paving their Carare, which is a Tribute that the Grand Signor lay s upon aftCHriflians
throughout his Dominions. He exafts from the pooreft fix a Headbut
there are fome that pay a hundred, or a hundred and fifty; and this Tribute .s due
fo foon as ever they come tQ he eighteen years ' j* c
The Ifland of Cyprus is one of the moft confiderable in the Mediterranean Sea,
more totheEaft than any of the reft; bearing the title of a Kingdom, as being
Miles in circuit. It is not all of the fame bredth, being ot a triangular form,
the fides whereof are very unequal. To it there belong feveral Capes or Promon
tories, the principal whereof are St. Spipbamo, toward the Weft; Cape ^
Gate, toward the South; Cape Tdiegrega, toward the NortEEaft; Cape Carmnckiti,
toward the North; and Cape St. Jadrcw, upon the moft Eaftern Point <>f the Ifland.
The principal Roads are that of Salines or Larneca, that of Paphos, and that of
Cerines mCemni. The Haven of Fatnaoofta fignifics nothing as to great Ships, there
being none but fmall Veffels that can ride there. The Venemns had formerly made
a fmall Mole there to harbour their Galhes; but it is now quite ruin d. The Road
of Cerines is that where the Barks and Galliots lye that come from and
‘PavafTes ; and where the Ba flips land that atefent as Governoors of the Ifland frorn
Conflantinopie, who refide generally at Nicofta. That City is almoft in the mid Jeof
the Ifland, and was formerly a very large one, as appears by thecompafsof the
ancient Walls. The new Walls are well terrafs’d withm-fide, and in a good pofture
oi defence. There are three Gates belong to the City; that of Fantogofla, that of
Paphos, and that of Cerines. The City it felf is no uncomely place ; the Knenans
having adorn’d it with many fait Palaces, which the demol.fh every day mif
of hopes to find hidd’n Treafure therein, and fell the Stones to build new Houfes.
The Cathedral that goes by the name of Santa Sophia is an ample and fair Struc ure,
IfwSthTr^haveLw made a Altogether «nth - more «htcfc
was formerly a Monaftery belonging to the .^#« Fryars The Greeks have there
four Churches, and the Franks two ; that is to fay.the FrewEMifiionary Capmhins, and
the Italian Mifflonary Soccolans. The firft have a Church didicated to ,
others another, which is call’d Holy Rood Church. The Armenians alfo ha ^ anot J«
belonging to them, which is a very neat Building, which was formerly a Monaftery
of the Carthufians. There it is that there is a Tomb, adorn dwith feveral Sculptures
of Religious Nuns, efpecially an Abbefs with a Crofs in her Hand, the Writing
about the Stone being in French Charaftcrs. The City is feared in a temperate Air
and a fertilSoil, abounding with Water. It extends more m length thanoredth