_ 151 _ There were ships loaded for Cyprus, and I heard that there was a Venetian carrack being loaded in Cyprus. As one of the ships was to leave the next day, I wished to sail in her without waiting for the possessions which were arriving for me with the caravan. I left my clothes in charge of a factor of the Venetians there. Merchandise from Aleppo is sent to him and he receives that which comes from Venice. I instructed him to send me my possessions in the first ship to the port of Salines in Cyprus, where the carracks are loaded, to the house of a factor of the Venetians where I was to put up; I had a letter of recommendation to him from a merchant in Aleppo with whom I had left instructions to send them to me in Venice if I had already left. For me what was most important was this book, which I had been writing on the journey so as to take note of everything; and in order to keep it in secret, it had been placed among my clothes. What happened to me from Tripoli to Cyprus and Venice. Item: I left Tripoli in the abovementioned ship for the island of Cyprus, a crossing of about 120 miles, 40 leagues at three miles per league, which is how everyone reckons it. As the wind dropped on the next day, we could not land at the port of Salines and went to Famagusta, a very important city on the island on the eastern side, fifty miles
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