The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679 / Now first published from the original MS. with biographical and historical notes.

  • Henry Teonge
Date:
1825
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Credit: The diary of Henry Teonge, chaplain on board His Majesty's Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, anno 1675 to 1679 / Now first published from the original MS. with biographical and historical notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    28 29 store of silke; for now wee are com into the sylken country. And here wee passe by the greate Bay of Calary. This morn wee com in vew of the Barbarian coasts; viz. Cape Marabott, on our starboard syde ; the kingdom of Tunis, famous for sorcerers. Here wee straine our shrouds; and our Capt. feasts the Unity and Syppio with good porke, beife, gheese, ducks, henns, chickens; and for sauce, plenty of good sack, mountaine Aligant, clarett, white wine, and English ale, the greatest raryty of all. And this evening wee are over against a small [land called Zombino, and neare Cape Carthage. Here stood old Carthage, the famous structure of Queene Dido, of which Virgill gives a large account. The cytty is wholly sunk under water; in so much, that as you row in to go to Tunis, if you keepe not the very channell, you may with ease see the walls of houses or pieces of towers, &c. There is still remain- ing part of Queene Dido’s toombe, of white and black marble, on a small risemg; and several] valts, in the which the Moores make houses and dwell there under ground. And in this place are taken greate store of mulletts; of the roes of which, being only dryed in the sun, the inhabitants make potargo, the greatest regalio of the Straits. These parts are very rich, haveing abundance of pulse of all sorts; poltry, cattell, fruits, rice, cottons, sugar, &c. Haveing past Cape Bona wee are in vew of another [land in the midst of the sea; lying very high, and called Pantalarya; PEP res to be not