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Austin, 1 on the 12th of March, observes the judge;and, long tossed about by contrary winds, we never-theless at length madeCerigo,where the great karack,and other large ships, might wait for a fair wind, andthen stand straight to Messina across the open seathat rolls into the Adriatic; leaving the grand masterwith his charge, the Rhodians, to continue in thelittle galleys and lesser craft shoring along. Neverdo such pigmies venture far from land, but creepclose under it; and frequently entering variousharbours of Morea, Albania, Zante, Cephalonia,Corfu, and disembarking, it were difficult to saywith what honours he was received everywhere bypeople and magistrates; still these marks of kind-ness and universal sympathy were necessarily farsurpassed by the various sufferings and multipliedhardships travellers in our sad situation had tosustain. At last many of the sailors, of the soldiers,even of the knights, fell sick; in truth, we all sosickened, that we had to be disembarked at Gallipolifor physic and refreshments, the number of sickgoing on increasing always, and their maladiesgetting worse. During our halt, the grand masterwrote signifying his arrival both to the Pope andthe emperor. At length again did we re-embark;but soon sickened anew, and in a forlorn state did1 Englishman from his name.