A little after we came in view of the kingdom of _Tunis_ in _Africa_, with some adjacent islands; amongst them there is one call’d _Simles_, which, tho’ but small, is very fruitful, and therein groweth the best _Aristolochia rotunda_ in abundance. We lost this the next morning, and westward upon our right hand, at about forty miles distance, we saw another, call’d _Panthalarea_, subject to the King of _Spain_, which is inhabited by above three hundred people; _Sicily_ on our left, because the night fell in, we did not then see, but came so near it, that early in the morning we could not only see the hills and mountains, and chiefly the _Mongibello_, which is very high, situated at the other side of the famous city of _Syracusa_, but also the buildings and steeples distinctly; we sail’d also the whole day by that side that lieth over-against the isle of _Malta_, so long till we came to the last point thereof: And altho’ we were not in a little danger there, because of the war, yet we saw no more than one small ship early in the morning by _Malta_, which we took to be of _Marseilles_. So, God be praised, we arrived very well, and without any hindrance at the farthest point of _Sicily_, on the 11th day of _September_ in the evening, which is reckon’d to be 900 _Italian_ miles from _Marseilles_; and we hoped also with the help of the Almighty to go the rest of our voyage to _Cyprus_, which is 1300 more, three of which are reckon’d to a _French_ league, for we crossed the _Adriatick_ and _Tyrrhenian_ seas, so happily by good weather, as if we had gone the other way through the streights. And although we sail’d on very fast, yet the wind was uncertain, for one arose after another, so that we had three several winds that night and day, _viz._ first, _Maistral_ after midnight, which lasted until morning; then the _Betsch_, that blew from south-west very violently, in _Latin_ call’d _Africus_, which lasted till night; then follow’d the _Ponente_, which bloweth from the west towards night, which commonly ariseth upon the coast of _Africa_, as the old seamen observe, and we found it so ourselves, on the day of the Holy Cross, not without trouble or danger; for as the seamen kept that day, and according to their old custom discharged three great guns, the _Betsch_ arose immediately with very great violence, so that the waves swell’d very high, and the ship was toss’d about from one side to the other, and did rock us so, that if we had not held ourselves, we could not have kept our places, as did happen to some of our company that did not observe this, and were strangely tumbled about in the ship, and forc’d to creep on all fours to their places again. This wind began to remit towards night, when the _Maistral_ began to blow. With this _Maistral_ we went on, and came so far, that on monday the 15th of _September_ early, we did make the island _Candy_, and soon after another, now call’d _Cerigo_, anciently _Cythera_, near to the _Morea_.