Travels and Researches in Crete

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. tKAVE FAIR HAVEKS FOR MESSARA BAY?ENCOUNTER A MELTEM OR SUMMER GALE, THE SAME IS CHARACTER AND DIRECTION AS THE WIND ENCOUNTERED BV ST. PATI/S SHIP?COMMENTS IN EXPLANATION OF THE EUKOCLtDOX AND OF ST. LUKE's DF.SCRIPTION OF THE COURSE TO PHffiNICE ? METALLUM -? BOMAN FORTRESS ROCK TOMBS PANAGIA...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. tKAVE FAIR HAVEKS FOR MESSARA BAY?ENCOUNTER A MELTEM OR SUMMER GALE, THE SAME IS CHARACTER AND DIRECTION AS THE WIND ENCOUNTERED BV ST. PATI/S SHIP?COMMENTS IN EXPLANATION OF THE EUKOCLtDOX AND OF ST. LUKE's DF.SCRIPTION OF THE COURSE TO PHffiNICE ? METALLUM -? BOMAN FORTRESS ROCK TOMBS PANAGIA CHAPEL AGIA FOTIA THE SITE OF PHESTUS?ACROPOLIS?COINS. A Gale from the south-east having obliged me to put to sea from Fair Havens a few days after my arrival, and to remain in the offing for twenty-four hours, till it had veered round as usual to the southwest, and the sea abated, when I again returned; but being anxious to know how the little tender' Auxiliar, ' in Mr. Wilkinson's charge, and the surveying boats, with Lieut. Mansell, then engaged in the survey of the Bay of Messara, had weathered it, I put to sea again as soon as it was apparently calm enough to communicate with them?being tempted by a calm morning at the Fair Havens to get up steam and weigh anchor for this purpose. Part of my course was just that which the captain of St. Paul's ship desired to steer in making for the port of Phcenice to the south-west of Crete (against the advice of Paul), since, to reach this port, it was necessary to sail rather12 SAIL FOR MESSARA BAY. close to the Cretan coast, and St. Luke says, When the south wind blew softly, supposing they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete (Acts, xxvii. 13). Thus the captain of the Alexandrian ship being dependent upon fair winds in those days (as are the junks of the Chinese in the present, which his ship must have somewhat resembled in rig and form), he was tempted to loose from Fair Havens on experiencing a light southerly wind in that port, and to proceed upon this route for Ph...