W h e n the heat was abated a little, we were informed that
the governor gave us permifiion to refrelh in his garden. We
difmifled his meflenger with-a bac-lhifh or prefent of three pia-
fters and an excufe, that we were juft going away; but thrs
was not accepted; and we paid another piafter for feeing a very
fmall fpot of ground, walled in, and containing nothing, except
two vines, a fig and a pomegranate tree, and a well of excellent
water.
T he Turks, after we were landed, had rowed the wherry
«round Maftufia, and waited for us without the point. In our
way to them, by the caftle-wall, we faw a large Corinthian capital
; and an altar, made hollow and ufed as a mortar for bruif-
ing corn. Near the other end of the town is a bare barrow. By
this, was formerly the facred portion of Protefilaus, and his temple,
to which perhaps the marble fragments have belonged. He
was one of the leaders in the Trojan expedition; and was killed
by Hedtor. Afterwards he was worfhipped as a hero, and reputed
the patron or tutelar deity of Eleus.
CHAP. VI.
Sail to Tmedos — Situation and modern hijlot;y -of the ijland— The
portand town— The antiquities— Greek recreations— The night
— The m'orhing —- The eonful returns.
O N our arrival at the wherry, which was behind thecaftle,
we found our Turks fitting on the ground, where they had
dined, chiefly on ripe fruits, with ordinary'bread. We had there
a wide and deep gulf, a portion of the Ægeanfea aiitieritly called
j A piafter is about half a crown Englilh, and is equal in value to thirty:peraus.
Thefe are a fmall ftlver coin, about the fize of an Englilh penny.
Mêlas,
l7
Melas, on our right hand j with Imbros, toward the entrance,
twenty five miles from Maftufia, and twenty two from Lemnos,
which lay before us; and beyond thefe, other iflands, and the continent
of Europe, in view. We had intended to vifit Lemnos, and
the principal places in that quarter, but, the wind proving contrary,
we now fleered for Tenedos, and, after rowing feme time
with a rough fea, hoifted fail. We palled by feme iflets, and
about three in the afternoon, reached the town. On opening
the harbour, we difcovered in it, belides fmall-craft, three
Turkilh gallies waiting to convey the Venetian bailow or refi-
dent, who was expedted daily, to Conftantinople; the lhips of
that republic being by treaty excluded from navigating the Hel-
lefpont.
T he illand Tenedos is chiefly rock, but fertile. It was an-
tiently reckoned about eighty ftadia or ten miles in circumference,
and from Sigeum twelve miles and a half. Its pofition, thus near
the mouth of the Hellefpont, has given it importance in all ages;
veflels bound toward Conftantinople finding Ihelter in its port,
or fafe anchorage in the road, during the etefian or contrary
winds, and in foul weather. The emperor Juftinian eredted a magazine
to receive the cargoes o f the corn-lhips from Alexandria,
when detained there. This building was two hundred and eighty
feet long, ninety broad, and very lofty. The voyage from
Egypt was rendered lefs precarious, and the grain preferved, until
it could be tranlported to the capital. Afterwards, during
the troubles of the Greek empire, Tenedos experienced a variety
of fortune. The pirates, which in felted thefe feas, made it for
many years their place of rendezvous; and Othman feized it in
1302, procured veflels, and from thence fubdued the other iflands
o f the Archipelago.
T he port of Tenedos has been inclofed in a mole, of which
no part now appears above water, but loofe ftones are piled on'
the foundations to break the waves. The bafin is encompafled
by a ridge of the mountain. Qn the fouth-fide is a row of wind-
C mills