“ Being disappointed going with the caravan to Babylon in the autumn, as has been already related, our traveller returned to Aleppo, where he staid till the spring, when he joined a caravan of Armenians and Turks, well guarded, bound to Jerusalem, hiring a mule from a Turk to carry his victuals.
Their number was about 600 Armenians, Christian pilgrims, men and women, 600 Turks trafficing for their own business. 100 soldiers, three chiauses, and six janizaries. ”

“ Near his lodgings, four officers and five galley soldiers ran to seize him when the English and French drawing their swords, desperately wounded two of his officers. Meantime, a reinforcement coming from the gallies, Smith, leaving the rest engaged, ran with Lithgow to the monastry. At length the officers of the garrison relieved their own soldiers, and drove back the others to the gallies. Soon after, the general of the gallies came to the monastry, and examining our traveller concerning the fugitive, he made such a defence that nothing could be proved against him. ”

“ Returning to Tripoli, he set out with a caravan of Turks for Aleppo, but before his arrival there, the caravan for Babylon, to his great grief, was departed: but, being told that it staid at Beershack on Euphrates, on account of some Arabs who way-laid them in the desarts, he hired a janizary and three soldiers to overtake them But though they had stayed, they were gone three days before he got there. ”

“ At Padua he staid three months learning Italian of one of his countrymen, Dr John Wedderburn, an eminent mathematician, who afterwards settled in Moravia. At his return to Venice, he embarked in a carmoesalo Zara Nova, in Dalmatia; but meeting with a violent storm, they were driven for shelter into the port of Parenzo, in Istria. Thence sailing by the isles Briani, the ruins of Pola, the isles Sangego, Osero, &c. on the 8th. day they arrived at Zira, where our traveller got a passage into a Greek carmoesalo for Lesina, the largest island in Adriatic. ”

“ John wrote his Revilation, were the next islands which he visited; and thence sailing to Nicaria, his vessel, in sight of it was chaced by two Turkish galliots into a bay, where, leaving the loaded boat, he and eight more fled to the rocks, from whence they annoyed the Turks with huge stones. The master and two other old men were taken and made slaves, and the boat and goods seized. ”

“ Credat Judaeus! They were shown also the ruins of King Priam’s palace, and where old Anchises dwelt. On a piece of a high wall, at the N. E. corner of Troy, our author found three pieces of rusted money; two of which he afterwards gave to the younger brothers of the duck of Florence, then studying at Pratolina; the third and fairest, with a large picture on one side, he bestowed, at Aix in province, on his countryman Mr. ”

“ From thence he went to Mecano, anciently Delos, the chief of the fifty-four Cyclades, where the custom still continues of never suffering men to die, or children to be born in it; but when the men are sick and the woman big-bellied they are sent to Rhena, two miles distant, Zea, Tino, and Palmosa, once Patmos, where St. ”