"We sailed from Midilli (Mitelene) to Bozcaada (Tenedos), this island is located between Midilli (Lesbos) and the Dardanelles (Hellespont) near Troy. The poet Vergil also mentions this island in his work Aeneid.
The best wine in all of Greece is made in Chios and Bozcaada (Tenedos). There is also a settlement named Tenedos, founded by Tenes. There was said to be a temple of Neptune on the island.
Opposite Tenedos is Troy, also called Troas, Troada (Alexandria Troas. R.A). Although I can't say much about it, it was written long ago:
"Iam seges est ubi Troya fui" (Ovid's Heroides, 1.1.53. R.A..)
This means: Where once was Troy, now is a field.As Vergil also expressed:
"Fuit Ilium et ingens gloria Teucrorum"
This means: The city of Troy is gone, but the glory of the Trojans was magnificent...A little beyond Troy, we directly entered the Hellespont (Dardanelles), a narrow strait called Helle's Hellespontus. It is located between the Aegean and Propontis (Marmara) and has both European and Asian shores. The name Hellespont is no longer used; instead, it is called the Castles. There are still two castles; one is Hellespont, and the other on the opposite shore is called the old castles Sestos and Abydos; these castles were built in memory of Leander and Hero, who constantly swam to the other shore for his lover but eventually drowned. The Skamender (Karamenderes River) flows beside the castles.
Eceabat (Madytos-Mayto) is a town on the same shore as Sestos, opposite Abydos. Very fine wine is made here for trade purposes. The red wine tastes like claret wine (Bordeaux). It is sweet, but they no longer add sugar because it is already very good.
Here, our merchant ships buy wine for their own needs. There are many windmills with ten vanes on one of them. The passage to Istanbul (Constantinople) is securely controlled by these two well-defended castles with cannons. It is checked where the ships come from and where they are going, and whether they pay taxes to the Sultan. If these two castles are destroyed, Istanbul (Constantinople) and the entire region can be easily conquered. However, despite all these castles, if a small fleet controls Chios in the middle of the narrow sea, all the castles and the region would starve; because a large portion of their other food supplies, such as rice and corn, comes from Alexandria.
Gelibolu (Gallipolis) is a large and ancient city, twenty miles away from the castles. These castles, now called the Galipoly castles, are located on the Thracian peninsula on the road to Istanbul (Constantinople). From their location, all the seas towards Propontis (Marmara Sea), Hellespont, Bosphorus (Bosphoros), Thrace (Thraicus) can be seen..."