February xxii.
By nine this morning we transport ourselves and horses by boat from Jerdáck to Gallipoli, and in three quarters of an hour arrive by God’s blessing on the European shore; where we bid a joyful farewel to that of Asia, after a severe sea sickness, which I endured in the passage. At which time three years and three months had passed, since my first arrival at Smyrna.
Callipolis, now called Gallipoli, was taken by the Turks in the reign of Orchán, and anno Hegirae 760. It is now a city considerably large, but thinly peopled, and decayed in commerce; tho it still plentifully enjoys that of cottons and aniseed. It stands upon a blunt point of land, betwixt two small open bays, of which that to the north is exceeding pleasant, and has on its green banks two fair Turkish sepulchers, the newer and more magnificent being that of Sinán pashá. Adjoining is a kane of very gentile fashion, with a mosque, and other instances of charity. The southern bay has the walls of the antient arsenal, for the lodging of stores and galleys, which formerly wintered in this place. Besides which the vast rocks, which lie before the town, are very remarkable; being a strange but natural mixture of sand, pebbles, and cockleshells, of which materials all the houses of the town are built. Here I saw a stone figure of our Savior’s baptism in the river Jordan, with another of the B. Virgin, carved contrary to the practice of the Greek church in basso relievo.