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 he embarked in & fishing-boat for Milo, one of the Cyclades, distant 100 miles.

From Milo our traveller proceeded to Zephano, another small island, from whence Lucullus first transported marble to Rome; and to Angusa, where he was wind-bound sixteen days, and all that time was never in bed; but lodged on the stones in a little chapel, the Greeks entreating him not to enter their sanctuary, because he was not of their religion; however, as the nights were long and cold, he was forced every night to creep into the midst of it to keep himself warm. From thence he went to Mecano, anciently Delos, the chief of the fifty-four Cyclades, where the custom still continues of never suffering men to die, or children to be born in it; but when the men are sick, and the women big bellied, they are sent to Rhena, two miles distant. Zeo, Tino, and Palmosa, once Patmos, where St John wrote his Revelation, were the next islands which he visited; and thence sailing to Nicaria, his vessel in sight of it was chased by two Turkish galliots into a bay, where leaving the loaded boat, he and eight more fled to the rocks, from whence they annoyed the Turks with huge stones. The master and two other old men were taken and made slaves, and the boat and goods siezed [sic]. In his way