Here every vessel can lie in perfect safety, be the sea outside the bar as stormy as it may; the only drawback is, that the entering of this harbour, a task of some difficulty in calm weather, becomes totally impracticable during a storm.

A round tower stands as a protection on either side of the entrance to the harbour.

The venerable church of St.John and the palace of the Komthur can be distinguished towering high above the houses and fortifications.
Our captain imparted to us the pleasant intelligence that we might spend the hours between this and three o'clock in the afternoon on shore.

Our ship had for some time lain surrounded by little boats, and so we lost no time in being conveyed to the land.

The first thing we did on reaching it was to ask questions concerning the ancient site of the celebrated Colossus.