“ 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 the officers. Meantime, a reinforcement coming from the gallies, Smith, leaving the rest engaged, ran with Lithgow to the monastery. 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 monastery, and examining our traveller concerning the fugitive, he made such a defence that nothing could be proved against him. ”

“ The winter being expired, Lithgow sailed in an English ship to Smyrna, and thence to Rhodes, where he saw the remains of the Colossus, and to Limisso, in Cyprus, from whence he went with an interpreter to visit Nioosia, the capital; and, on his return, meeting four Turks, they would have his mule to ride upon, which his interpreter refused., they pulled him off its back, beat him pitifully, and left him almost dead. ”

“ On the ninth day they arrived at Damascus, and were lodged three days there in a great khan, at the grand signior’s expence; a privilege allowed to all strangers who come with a caravan.
On Palm Sunday, in the morning, 1612, the caravan entering Jerusalem, and at the gate, they were all searched for arms and ammunition. The Amenians were obliged to deliver up their wepons, and Lithgow’s name was written in the clerks book, that his tribute for the gates, and for seeing the sepulchre, might before his departure, be, paid together. ”

“ The other infidels standing by, said to him. “Behold what a Saviour thou hast, when those that were Christians, now turned Mahometans, cannot abide nor regard the name of thy God!” Entering into a Greek lodging, he was much eased of his blows, by their anointing him with divers oils, and kindly received and refreshed gratis, beeause he had suffered so much for Christ’s sake. Next day he went to pay his duty to Sir Thomas Glover, the English ambassador, who eourteously entertained him three months in his house
“A more eomplete gentleman,” he says. ”

“ In the same boat Lithgow also embarked, and sailed to Candia, or Crete. Through this whole island he travelled twice, whieh no traveller in Christendom had done before. On setting out for Canea, being informed of the danger of robbers, he put his money in exehange, and had searce got twelve miles, when he was beset by three Greeks and an Italian, who beat him cruelly, robbed him of all his elothes, and striped him naked, adding many threats ”

“ 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 Beershaek on Euphrates, on account of some Arabs who waylaid them in the desarts, he hired a jannizary and three soldiers to overtake them. ”

“ Just befere a battle, when prayers were going to be read in front of the line, a protestant minister, his chaplain, took the liberty to remonstrate to him, that he could not expeet that the Divine Being would favour his arms, if he did not previously ask pardon for this offence, and repair the scandal which he had given by the most public satisfaction. ”

“ In his way back our author was met by two soldiers of his nation, Smith and Hurgrave, who were coming to inform him that the offieers of the gallies, and several soldiers were searching the city and the fields for him. Advising with them how to reach the Julian monastery, St. Salvador, where they lodged, they conducted him in at the eastern the least frequented gate of the city, where three other Englishmen of the garrison were that day on guard, and with them happened to be eight French soldicrs, their friends, who also agreed to escort him. ”

“ 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. ”