_ 164 _ many soldiers who were returning from Cyprus, Germans, Neapolitans and Sicilians, concealed ourselves; for the Turks mortally hate King Philip and seek out in these carracks people from his lands. There was a good hiding-place for up to twelve people in the carrack. We were very afraid because the Turks searched the ship thoroughly. They also look for young men, and, even if they are Cypriots or Venetians and they look attractive to them, they take them for the practice of the most abominable sin; sometimes they take the sons of Venetian gentlemen. They took the master and the scrivener of the carrack away from the captain and they took to the galleys as gifts to four captains thirty cruzados for each of them and a further twenty to share out among the masters and boatswains. They took two barrels of wine, one of vinegar and one of gunpowder, which they requested. They took many chickens from the coops and some sheep. With kind words and courtesy, they returned and also took off with them a young cabin-boy who wished to go with them with his own free will. We then set sail, and with a south-west wind over the prow we arrived on the coast of Caramania, at a castle of the Turk called [Riezo], two hundred and thirty miles from Cyprus.
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