In Smyrna our company had been augmented by the arrival of a few more Franks.
May 21st.
Yesterday evening and all this day we have been sailing among islands.

The principal of these were Scio, Samos, and Cos, and even these form a desolate picture of bare, inhospitable mountains and desert regions.

On the island of Cos alone we saw a neat town, with strong fortifications.
May 22d.
This morning, shortly after five o'clock, we ran into the superb harbour of Rhodes.

Here, for the first time, I obtained a correct notion of a harbour.

That of Rhodes is shut in on all sides by walls and masses of rock, leaving only a gap of a hundred and fifty to two hundred paces in width for the ships to enter.