_ 162 _ It is fifteen leagues from Limassol to the west. When we were four leagues short of Paphos, the weather being too bad to permit us to put in there, we sighted twenty Turkish galleys, which were on their way to Tripoli to load gunpowder and munitions for the fleet. As they were far out to sea and the day was very dark, they passed without seeing us. They went to Limassol where they took the carpenter and the gondolier of two carracks which they found there when the other men were ashore. They gave them only eighty cruzados as a gift; it is the custom for them to make gifts to the Venetian carracks, the galleys and the Turkish captains they encounter. In our carrack, there were those who thought that all the suspect men should be put ashore, and this was a large number, that is to say all those who were not Venetians, because these people search the carracks and seize them. Others thought that we should escape to sea under sail, which is what we did. After we had gone about, we arrived back at the same place because we saw the galleys proceeding in the direction of Tripoli. On the next day, we arrived at the port of Paphos; the city is half a league inland, situated to the east at thirty-five-and-a-half degrees. It has about four hundred citizens like the other towns, but has better buildings than
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