_ 170 _ I had spent fifty-four days on the voyage from Cyprus on account of the worst of bad weather, and in Cyprus, I had to wait two months for the carrack. It is much better to come overland from Aleppo to Constantinople, which would have been twenty-five days journey, and to take a vessel from there for Venice, which would have taken me less than fifteen days, or to any port in France. It is possible to go overland from Constantinople to Ragusa, and from there in five days to Venice. From Tripoli, it is possible to take French galleons to Marseilles, as they always leave there in February and March; and that is a voyage of twenty-five to thirty days. If a French galleon cannot be found in Tripoli, one can go via Alexandria, where it is always possible to find a passage to France or to Messina in Sicily. Item: I left Venice on 6 July by a courier-vessel, and we disembarked at Lisafusina. From there, we went by Brenta to Padua, which is eighteen miles from there, and from there to Vicenza, which is eighteen miles from Padua. We left there and arrived to dine in Verona, which is thirty miles from Vicenza. We slept in a village called Luna, and on the next day, we dined in Brescia, which is fifteen miles from Luna.
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