In the island of Lesina, he sees a monstrous child, which affords him a fine opportunity for description. It is precisely one of those sights which travellers of his time most loved to describe, and the vulgar of all ages are especially delighted to read. For the gratification of the vulgar part of our readers, (for even we cannot be supposed to be entirely exempt from them,) we extract it.

"The governour, who was a Venetian, after he enquired of my intended voyage, most courteously invited me three times to his table, in the time of my five dayes staying there; and, at the last meeting, hee reported the story of a marvellous mis-shapen creature, borne in the iland, asking if I would goe thither to see it, wherewith, when I perfectly understood the matter, I was contented. The gentleman honoured me also with his company, and a horse to ride on, where, when we came, the captaine called for the father of that monster, to bring him forth before us. Which unnaturall child being brought, I was amazed in that sight, to behold the deformity of nature; for below the middle part there was but one body, and above the middle, there was two living soules, each one separated from another with severall members. Their heads were both of one bignesse, but different in phisnomy; the belly of the one joyned with the posterior part of the other, and their faces looked both one way, as if the one had carried the other on his backe, and often before our eyes, hee that was behind would lay his hands about the necke of the foremost. Their eyes were exceeding bigge, and their hands greater than an infant of three times their age. The excrements of both creatures issued forth at one place, and their thighes and legges of a great grouth, not semblable to their age, being but sixe-and-thirty dayes old; and their feet were proportionably made like to the foote of a cammell, round and cloven in the middest. They received their food with an insatiable desire, and continually mourned with a pittifull noise. That sorrowfull man told us, that when one slept the other awaked, which was a strange disagreement in nature. The mother of them bought dearely that birth, with the losse of her own life; as her husband reported, unspeakable was that torment she endured, in that woefull wrestling paine. I was also informed afterwards, that this one, or rather two-fold wretch, lived but a short while after we saw them.

Leaving this monstrous-shapen monster to the owne strange, and almost incredible nativity, we returned to Lesina. But by the way of our back-comming, I remember that worthy gentleman, who shewed me the ruines of an old house, where the noble king Demetrius was borne; and after I had yielded my bounden and dutifull thankes unto his generous minde, I hired a fisher-boat to goe over to Clissa, being twelve miles distant."

As he is passing Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Isles, he meets with his first regular adventure, in which he certainly behaved with becoming courage, if we may trust his own account. It is certainly narrated in a style worthy of the most lofty exploits.

"In the meane while of our navigable passage, the captaine of the vessel espyed a saile comming from sea, hee presently being moved therewith, sent a mariner to the toppe, who certified him she was a Turkish galley, of Biserta, prosecuting a straight course to invade our barke. Which suddaine affrighting newes overwhelmed us almost in despaire. Resolution being by the amazed master demanded, of every man, what was best to doe, some replyed one way, and some another. Insomuch, that the most part of the passengers gave counsell rather to render than fight; being confident their friends would pay their ransome, and so relieve them. But I, the wandring pilgrime, pondering in my pensive breast, my solitary estate, the distance of my country and friends, could conceive no hope of deliverance. Upon the which troublesome and fearefull appearance of slavery, I absolutely arose, and spoke to the master, saying: -The halfe of the carmosalo is your owne, and the most part also of the loading; (all which he had told me before;) wherefore, my counsaile is, that you prepare yourselfe to fight; and goe encourage your passengers, promise to your mariners double wages, make ready your two pieces of ordnance, your muskets, powder, lead and halfe-pikes; for who knoweth, but the Lord may deliver us from the thraldome of these infidels. My exhortation ended, hee was greatly animated therewith, and gave me thankes; wherupon assembling the passengers and mariners, he gave good comfort and large promises to them all; so that their affrighted hopes was converted to a couragious resolution, seeming rather to give the first assault, than to receive the second wrong.

"To performe the plots of our defence, every man was busie in the worke, some below in the gunner-roome, others cleansing the musket, some preparing the powder and balls, some their swords and short weapons, some dressing the halfe-pikes, and others making fast the doores above; for so the master resolved to make combate below, both to save us from small shot, and besides, for boarding us on a suddaine. The dexterous courage of all men was so forward to defend their lives and libertie, that truely, in mine opinion, we seemed thrice as many as wee were. All things below and above being cunningly perfected, and every one ranked in order with his harquebuse and pike, to stand on centinell of his own edefence, wee recommend ourselves in the hands of the Almighty, and, in the mean while, attended their fiery salutations.

"In a furious spleene, the first hola of their courtesies, was the progresse of a martiall conflict, thundring forth a terrible noyse of gally-roaring peeces. And wee, in a sad reply, sent out a backsounding eccho of fiery flying shots, which made an Equinox to the clouds, rebounding backward in our perturbed breasts, the ambiguous sounds of feare and hope. After a long and doubtfull fight, both with great and small shot, night parting us, the Turkes retired till morning, and then were mindfull to give us the new rancounter of a second alarum. But, as it pleased him, who never faileth his, to send downe an unresistable tempest, about the breake of day wee escaped their furious designes, and were enforced to seeke into the bay of Largastolo, in Cephalonia, both because of the violent weather, and also for that a great leak was stricken into our ship. In this fight there was of us killed, three Italians, two Greekes, and two Jewes, with eleven others deadly wounded, and I also hurt in the right arme with a small shot. But what harme was done by us amongst the infidels, we are not assured thereof, save only this, wee shot away their middle mast, and the hinder part of the poupe, for the Greeks are not expert gunners, neither could our harquebusadoes much annoy them, in respect they never boarded. But, howsoever it was, being all disbarked on shore, we gave thanks to the Lord for our unexpected safety, and buried the dead Christians in a Greekish church-yard, and the Jewes were interred by the sea side."

He proceeds to Zante, where a Greek chirurgeon undertakes the cure of his arm, and performed condition within time." Passing into the Morea, he arrives at a place he calls Peterasso, (Patras,) the place which now almost alone holds out against the Greeks.

"After my arrivall in Peterasso, the metropolitan of Pelopenésus, I left turmoyling dangers of the intricated iles of the Ionean and Adriaticall seas, and advised to travell in the firme land of Greece, with a caravan of Greekes that were bound for Athens.

"Peterasso is a large and spacious city, full of merchandise, and greatly beautified with all kinds of commercers. Their chiefe commodities are, raw silkes, cloth of gold and silver, silken grow-grams, rich damask, velvets of all kinds, with sattins and taffaties, and especially a store-house for graine. The Venetians, Ragusans, and Marseillians, have great tradings with them. Here, I remember, there was an English factor lying, whom the Subbassa, or governour of the town, a Turke, caused privately afterward, upon malice, to be poysoned, even when I was wintring at Constantinople; for whose death, the worthy and generous ambassadour, Sir Thomas Glover, my patron and protector, was so highly incensed, that he went hither himselfe to Peterasso, with two janizaries, and a warrant sent with him from the emperour, who, in the midst of the market place of Peterasso, caused one of these two janizaries to strike off the head from the shoulders of that Sanzack, and put to death divers others, also, that had beene accessary to the poysoning of the English consull; and the ambassadour returning againe to Constantinople, was held in singular reputation, even with the Turkes, for prosecuting so powerfully the sword of justice, and would not shrinke for no respect, I being domesticke with him the selfe same time."

From Patras he traverses Peloponnesus. At Argos, "he had the ground to be a pillow, and the world-wide fields to be a chamber; the whirling windy skies to be a roofe to his winter

blasted lodging, and the humid vapours of cold Nocturna to accompany the unwished-for bed of his repose."

Our painefull traveller' remains some time in Crete. Proceeding to Canea, he meets with an adventure.

"Having learned of the theevish way I had to Canea, I advised to put my money in exchange, which the captaine of that strength very courteously performed, and would, also, have disswaded me from my purpose, but I, by no perswasion of him, would stay. From thence departing all alone, scarcely was I advanced twelve miles in my way, when I was beset on the skirt of a rocky mountaine, with three Greeke murthering renegadoes, and an Italian bandido, who, laying hands on me, beat me most cruelly, robed me of all my cloaths, and stripped me naked, threatning me with many grievous speeches.

"At last, the respective Italian perceiving I was a stranger, and could not speak the Cretan tongue, began to aske me, in his owne language, where was my money? To whom I soberly answered, I had no more than hee saw, which was fourescore bagantines, which scarely amounted to two groats English; but hee, not giving credit to these words, searched all my cloathes and budgeto, yet found nothing, except my linnen, and letters of recommendations I had from divers princes of Christendome, especially the Duke of Venice, whose subjects they were, if they had beene lawfull subjects; which, when hee saw, did move him to compassion, and earnestly entreated the other three theeves to grant me mercy, and to save my life. A long deliberation being ended, they restored backe againe my pilgrimes cloathes and letters, but my blew gowne and bagantines they kept. Such, also, was their theevish courtesie towards me, that, for my better safeguard in the way, they gave me a stamped piece of clay, as a token to shew any of their companions, if I encountred with any of them; for they were about twenty rascalls of a confederate band, that lay in this desart passage.

"Leaving them with many counterfeit thankes, I travailed that day seven and thirty miles, and, at night, attained to the unhappy village of Pickehorno, where I could have neither meate, drinke, lodging, nor any refreshment to my wearied body. These desperate Candiors thronged about me, gazing (as though astonished) to see me both want company and their language, and by their cruell looks they seemed to be a barbarous, uncivill people; for all these highlanders of Candy are tyrannicall, blood-thirsty, and deceitfull. The consideration of which, and the appearance of my death, signed to mee secretly by a pittifull woman, made mee to shunne their villany, in stealing forth from them in the darke night, and privately sought for a secure place of repose in a umbragious cave by the sea-side, where I lay till morning, with a fearefull heart, a crased body, a thirsty stomacke, and a hungry belly."

It is creditable to Lithgow, that many of his misfortunes were brought on by his humanity. He leads the life of a pe

destrian knight-errant-fighting and running away, cudgelling and being cudgelled-all for the sake of relieving distress and exploring the unknown regions of the world. The following extract affords an instance.

"In my first abode in Canea, being a fortnight, there came six gallies from Venice, upon one of which there was a young French gentleman, a protestant, borne neare Monpeillier, in Langadocke; who being, by chance, in company with other foure of his countreymen in Venice, one of them killed a young noble Venetien, about the quarrell of a curtezan; whereupon, they flying to the French ambassadours house, the rest escaped, and he onely apprehended by a fall in his flight, was afterward condemned by the senators to the gallyes induring life. Now, the gallyes lying here sixe dayes, he got leave of the captaine to come ashoare with a keeper when he would, carrying an iron-bolt on his legge. In which time, wee falling in acquaintance, he complained heavily of his hard fortune, and how, because he was a protestant, (besides his slavery) he was severely abused in the galley, sighing forth these words, with tears:-Lord, have mercy upon mee, and grant me patience, for neither friends nor money can redeeme mee. At which expression I was both glad and sorrowfull; the one moving my soule to exult in joy for his religion; the other, for his misfortunes, working a Christian condolement for intollerable affliction; for I was in Venice at that same time when this accident fell out, yet would not tell him so much; but pondering seriously his lamentable distresse, I secretly advised him the manner how he might escape, and how farre I would hazard the liberty of my life for his deliverance, desiring him to come a shoare early the next morning. Meanewhile I went to an old Greekish woman, with whom I was friendly inward, for shee was my landresse, and reciting to her the whole businesse, she willingly condiscended to lend me an old gowne and a blacke vaile for his disguisement. The time came, and we met. The matter was difficult to shake off the keeper; but such was my plot; I did invite him to the wine, where, after tractall discourses, and deepe draughts of Leatick, reason failing, sleepe overcame his sences. Whereupon, conducting my friend to the appointed place, I disburdened him of his irons, clothed him in a female habite, and sent him out before mee, conducted by the Greekish woman, and, when securely past both guard and gate, I followed, carrying with mee his cloathes, where, when accoasting him by a field of olives, and the other returned backe, we speedily crossed the Vale of Suda, and, interchanging his apparrell, I directed him the way over the mountaines to a Greekish convent on the south side of the land, a place of safeguard, called, commonly, the Monastery of Refuge, where hee would kindly bee entertained, till either the gallyes or men-of-war of Malta arrived; it being a custome at their going or comming from the Levante to touch heere, to releeve and carry away distressed men. This is a place whereunto bandits, men-slayers, and robbers repaire

for reliefe.

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"And now many joyfull thankes from him redounded, I returned,