In _Marseilles_ where I was lodged in my forenam’d kinsman’s house, to stay untill the ships were ready, I met with one _John Ulrich Kraft_, son of _John Kraft_, one of the Privy Council at _Ulm_, who was arrived there a few days before, also with the same intention to go along with us, about his own business. We staid together, and while the ships were fitting out, we made ourselves acquainted with the Physicians and Apothecaries, but above the rest with one experienced man, _Jacob Renaud_, a great lover of plants, who shew’d me in his garden many pretty and strange simples, _viz._ _Scammonium verum_, _Ambrosia_, _Moly_, _Ammi_, _Aloës_, _&c._, and a great many dry’d and laid between papers. I found also about the city, _Trifolium Asphaltites_, _Lactuca marina_, _Dendillaria_, _Tragacantha Guilhelmi Rondeletii_, a great _Scabiosa_ with white flowers, _Gratiola_, _Gnaphalium marinum_, _Medica marina_, _Polygonum marinum_, _Eryngium marinum_, _Coris Monspeliensium_, another sort of _Tamariscus_, and of _Consolida_, with yellow sweet flowers, which I also found between _Nimes_, and _Pont du gard_, an old, strong, and fine building, upon which I did find _Ruta Silvestris_, a sort of _Verbascum foliis dissectis_, _Papaver corniculatum flore flavo_; I also found thereabouts _Chondrilla Viminea_, growing chiefly in the vineyards, _Conyza major_, _Vermicularis fruticans_, _Carduus tomentosus_, not unlike to _Leucacantha_, _Nepa Lobelii in adversariis novis_; I also found _Tartonrayre_, _Aster atticus luteus_, _Psyllium_, _Seseli Æthiopicum fruticans_, _Jujubes_, _red Valeriana_, _Corruda Rembert. Dodon._, the first kind of _Catanance Dioscor._, which I first spy’d by it’s dry’d leaves, just like a Vulture’s claw, and many others, not needful to be here related. After that the ship _Santa Croce_ was laden, victuall’d for three months, and provided with guns, and all other necessaries for a three months voyage; we two went with our master, _Anthony Reinard_, with some others belonging to him, in a frigat, the first day of _September_, in the year 1673, to our ship, which lay at anchor with several other laden ships, near the adjacent islands, with an intention to set sail the next day. The next day about two in the afternoon, when God sent us a good wind, we hoisted up our sails, and went on: When our patron began to exhort his men to agree together, and to be obedient to him, which they all faithfully promised; then we went to prayers, and recommended ourselves to the protection of God Almighty. In the first setting out, before we got to sea, our ship came so near to another, that they touch’d almost; and had not the seamen in time got them off, we might have suffer’d shipwreck. When this was over, and we out of danger, we sail’d on with full sails six of us, and advanc’d so fairly, that we lost the sight of land before night, and could see nothing but sky and water.