[153] Castel Tornese.
[154] Bay of Argostoli in Cephalonia.
[155] The Edward Bonaventure and the Susan are the two ships which Richard Hakluyt, in his Collection of Voyages, vol. ii, 285, tells us had a fight with 11 gallies and 2 frigates of the king of Spain, within the Straits of Gibraltar, and came off victorious.
In Harleian MS. 1579, f. 150, we find “a note of all the shipps that’s bound for Turkey out of England and the burden of them and the Captaynes names”. The Hector is given in this list as of 300 tons, and under the command of Captain Harris. The Bonaventure was also 300 tons, Captain Childie. Dallam here distinguishes between the merchant ship Bonaventure and the Queen’s ship Edward Bonaventure: this latter ship and the Swallow were both probably those engaged in the destruction of the Spanish Armada, when the Bonaventure was commanded by Captain Regmon and the Swallow by Captain Hawkins. The Bonaventure appears in the list of many of the expeditions of the time under Frobisher and Sir Francis Drake. (Archæologia, vol. xxxiv.)
[156] Perhaps the ship Susan which in 1581 carried our first Ambassador to the Porte, Mr. Harbone, to Constantinople.
[157] Ital. moscato, a name given in those days to several sweet Italian and French wines.
“Quaff’d off the muscadel.”
(Taming of the Shrew, iii, 2.)
[158] Lixure, in Bay of Argostoli in Cephalonia.
[159] Montebello. Cf. the Greek love of euphemism, which gave the name of Kalliste, or the most beautiful, to the volcano of Santorin.