side, where Troy stood, where are yet ruines of olde walles to be seene, with two hils rising in a piramidall forme, not vnlikely to be the tombs of Achilles and Ajax.  From thence we sailed along, hauing Tenedos and Lemnos on the right hand, and the Troian fields on the left:  at length we came to Mitylen and Sio long time inhabited by the Genoueses, but now vnder the Turke.  The Iland is beautified with goodly buildings and pleasant gardens, and aboundeth with fruits, wine, and the gum masticke.  From thence sailing alongst the gulfe of Ephesus with Nicaria on the right hand, Samos and Smirna on the left, we came to Patmos, where S. Iohn wrote the Revelation.  The Iland is but small, not aboue five miles in compasse:  the chiefe thing it yeeldeth is corn:  it hath a port for shipping, and in it is a monastery of Greekish Caloieros.  From thence by Cos (now called Lango) where Hipocrates was borne:  and passing many other Ilands and rocks, we arriued at Rhodes, one of the strongest and fairest cities of the East:  here we stayed three or foure dayes; and by reason of a By which went in the ship to Paphos in Cyprus, who vsed me with all kindnesse, I went about the city, and tooke the view of all:  which city is still with all the houses and walles thereof maintained in the same order as they tooke it from the Rhodian knights.  Ouer the doores of many of the houses, which be strongly built of stone, do remaine vndefaced, the armes of England, France, Spaine, and many other Christian knights, as though the Turkes in the view thereof gloried in the taking of all Christendome, whose armes they beholde.  From thence we sailed to Paphos an olde ruinous towne standing vpon the Westerne part of Cyprus, where S. Paul in the Acts conuerted the gouernor.  Departing hence, we came to Sidon, by the Turkes called Saytosa, within tenne or twelue miles of the place where Tirus stood, which now being eaten in by the sea, is, as Ezekiel prophesied, a place for the spreading out of a net.  Sidon is situated in a small bay at the foot of mount Libanus, vpon the side of an hill looking to the North:  it is walled about, with a castle nigh to the sea, and one toward the land which is ruinated, but the walle thereof standeth.  Some halfe mile vp toward the mountaine be certaine ruines of buildings, with marble pillars, remaining:  heere for three dayes we were kindly entertained of the Captaine of the castle:  and in a small barke we sailed from hence along the shore to Tripoli, and so to Alexandretta, where the 24 of August we arriued.  From thence with a Venetian carauan we went by land to Aleppo, passing by Antioch, which is seated vpon the side of an hill, whose walles still stand with 360 turrets upon them, and neere a very great plaine which beareth the name of the city, thorow which runneth the riuer Orontes, in Scripture called Farfar.  In Aleppo I stayed vntill February following; in this city, as at a mart, meete many nations out of Asia with the people of Europe, hauing continuall traffike