[225] Plash = puddle. “Makes meadows, standing pleashes.” (Browne, Buttamina’s Pastorals, i, 1.)
[226] The Archipelago.
[227] Argentiere is the Italian name for Kimolos, a great halting-place for ships in those days.
[228] Seriphos and Siphnos.
[229] Psara.
[230] Kara-bournon = Turkish, black point or nose.
[231] Sir P. Ricaut was twelve years Consul at Smyrna, and wrote a work on Turkish Policy.
[232] Dr. Pickering and Dr. Covel are mentioned by Spon and Wheeler as being at Smyrna. “And so in the good company of Doctor Pickering, physician to the factory at Smyrna, Dr. Covel, who was so kind as to bring us some part of the way, and divers merchants, we parted hence.”
[233] Aspers: a coin, worth a halfpenny at that time, according to Sir Paul Ricaut.
[234] The Patriarchate at Constantinople was then in a deplorable state. The price of the dignity was, Von Hammer tells us, then 20,000 crowns. Dionysius and Parthenius were constantly quarrelling for the office. Dionysius was deposed because he quarrelled with Panagiotes, the great dragoman’s wife ([vide Introduction]), but returned to office on his death. Parthenius did well for the Greek cause in abolishing the temporary unions of Greek women with Turks.