Laurence Aldersey

Laurence Aldersey (1546-1597/98) ya kasance mai binciken Ingila wanda ya yi tafiye-tafiye biyu zuwa Levant, asusun da, 'ya kafa kansa,' an kiyaye su a cikin Principall Navigations na Richard Hakluyt.

An haife shi a Aldersey Hall a Spurstow, Cheshire, ɗan na shida na Thomas Aldersey (ya mutu 1557) da matarsa, Cecilia née Garnet (fl. 1513-94). Mahaifinsa ya yi aiki a matsayin sheriff da kuma magajin garin Chester. Ba a san shi da yin aure ba. Yana da alaƙa da Thomas Aldersey (1521/2-98), ɗan kasuwa na London kuma memba na majalisa.

 Tafiyar farko 
Aldersey ya tashi a tafiyarsa ta farko a ranar 1 ga Afrilu 1581, yana tafiya a kan ƙasa ta Holland da Jamus zuwa Venice, inda ya shiga cikin jirgin ruwa da ke zuwa Cyprus. Daga can ya tashi a cikin ƙaramin jirgi kuma ya sauka a Yopa (Jaffa), a ƙarshe ya isa Urushalima, burin tafiyarsa a ranar 12 ga watan Agusta. Bayan ziyarar kwana goma zuwa Birnin Mai Tsarki da kewayenta, ya dawo ta hanyar da ya zo, ya wuce ta Nuremberg da Antwerp, kuma ya kammala tafiyarsa zuwa da kuma daga Urushalima a cikin watanni tara da kwanaki biyar.  (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

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Tafiyarsa ta biyu ta hanyar teku. Lokacin da ya tashi a Bristol a cikin jirgin 'Hercules, na London, 21 ga Fabrairu 1586, ya yi tafiya ta hanyar Straits kuma ya fara taɓa Goletta na Tunis; daga can ya tashi zuwa Zante da Patras a cikin Morea. A can, shi da kamfaninsa sun sami karbuwa da girmamawa daga 'cadi' na garin, kamar yadda suke cikin Hercules Turks ashirin, 'wanda Sir Francis Drake ya fanshe a West Indies, inda cadi ya yi farin ciki sosai a Queenes Maiestie na Ingila kasancewar mace ce mai irin wannan iko da shahara." Daga can ya tashi zuwa tsibirai daban-daban a cikin tsibirin Girka, kuma bayan ziyarar ta biyu zuwa Cyprus ya sauka a Tripolis, a Siriya, inda ya ɗauki ƙaramin jirgi kuma a ƙarshe ya isa Alexandria a ranar 28 ga Yuli. Mutumin Ingilishi daya tilo da ya karbe shi a can shine Thomas Rickman, maigidan jirgin Tyger na London, wanda ya yi aikin jagora zuwa wurin.

Bayan ya ziyarci duk abubuwan da ke da sha'awa a ko kusa da Alexandria da Alkahira a lokacin ziyarar kwana goma sha huɗu, ya tafi Argiers (Algiers); ya bar wannan wuri a ranar 7 ga Janairu, ya sauka a Dartmouth a ranar 1 ga Fabrairu, kuma bayan kwana bakwai ya 'yi zuwa London, tare da godiya ga Almightie Allah don isowarsa lafiya' Idan aka yi la'akari da lokacin da aka rubuta su, abubuwan da Aldersey ya lura game da mutane da birane suna da ban sha'awa da ban shaʼawa; kamar, alal misali, waɗanda ke kan Cologne, Augsburg, Venice. Maganganunsa game da Doge da Yahudawa na Venice sun cancanci kulawar ɗalibin Shakespeare. Aldersey ya bayyana kansa a matsayin dan kasuwa na London.

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