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CHAPTER XVIII.

Arrival in Venice.—The Custom House.—Festival on
All Saints' Day.—Casola says Mass at the Frari.—
Visits the Milanese Ambassador and meets Philippe
de Comines,—Palazzo Delfini.—Dominican Con¬
vent.—Casola takes leave of Friends in Venice and
goes to Padua.—Vicenza.—Abbey at Villanova.—
Verona.—Peschiera.—The Muster.—Brescia and
its Bishop.—Encounter with Friends from Milan.—
Calci.—Caravaggio.—Casola Arrives in Milan.

On Thursday, the 30th of October, about the first hour
of the day, we reached a place called Sopra Porto,^ said
to be ten miles distant from Venice. There was a very
heavy sea, and the captain ordered the anchors to be cast
there.

As the arrival of the galley had been announced by an
English pilgrim who had left Zara in a barque, many pilot
boats came to meet us, and other boats also came to take
off the pilgrims, because, as I said, there was a heavy
swell on, and the pilot thought it better not to proceed
further for the present.

The captain, who did not feel very well, took one of
the boats, and permitted me to accompany him. I left
all my possessions except my breviary on board the galley.
That swell was a great comfort to me, so great was my
desire to reach Venice.

To the praise of God, at the nineteenth hour, I arrived
in Venice, and found that the pilgrims who had left the

1, This may have been what is now called "Pelorosso" on the sea side of Malamocco,
where there is good anchorage.