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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

from the old walls where when they entered they made a wonderfull massacre of poor afflicted Christians without sparing any of the Roman kinde either male or female In the mercilesse fury of these infernall Imps the Emperour Constantine was killed whose head being cut off was carried upon the point of a Lance through all the City and Campe of the Turkes to the great disgrace and ignominy of Christianity His Empresse Daughters and other Ladies after they were abused in their bodies were put to death in a most cruell and terrible manner By this overthrow of Constantinople this Mahomet took twelve Kingdoms and two hundred Cities from the Christians which is a lamentable losse of such an illustrious Empire Thus was that Imperiall Citie lost in the yeare 1453 May 29 when it had remained under the government of Christians 1198 yeares It is now the chief abode of the great Turk Sultan Achmet the fifteenth Grand Cham of the line of Ottoman who was then about twenty three years of age whose sonne Osman since and after his death was murdered by the Ianizaries being 14 years of age after his return to Constantinople from Podolia in Poland And in his place his Uncle Mustapha made Emperour whose weaknesse and unworthinesse being eft-soons discovered he was displaced and Amurath Osmans brother made Grand Signior who presently raigneth and not without great feare of his Ianizaries and Timariots who twice in three yeeres have lately made insurrection against him This Emperour Achmet who was alive when I was there was more given to Venery then Martiality which gave a greater advantage to the Persians in their defensive wars Concerning the Empire wee may observe some fatall contrarieties in one and the same name For Philip the Father of Alexander laid the first foundation of the Macedonian Monarchy and Philip the Father of Perseus ruined it So was this Town built by a Constantine the sonne of Helena a Gregory being Patriarch and was lost by a Constantine the sonne of a Helena a Gregory being also Patriarch The Turks have a Prophesie that as it was wonne by a Mahomet so it shall be lost by a Mahomet The form or situation of this Citie is like unto a Triangle the South part whereof and the East part are invironed with Hellespontus and Bosporus Thraicus and the North part adjoyning to the firme land It is in compasse about the walls esteemed to be 18 miles in one of these triangled points being the Southeast part and at the joyning of Bosphore and Hellespont standeth the Palace of the Great Turke called Seralia and the Forrest wherein he hunteth which is two miles in length The speciall object of Antiquitie I saw within this City was the incomparable Church of Saint Sophia whose ornaments and hallowed Vessels were innumerable in the time of Iustinian the Emperour who first builded it but now converted to a Mosque and consecrated to Mahomet after a diabolicall manner I saw also the famous Hyppodrome and the Theater whereon the people stood when the Emperours used to run their Horses and make their Princely shows on solemne dayes which is now altogether decaid There is a great Columne in that same place in the which all these things memorable that have bin done in this Hyppodrome are superficially carved Upon the West corner of the City there is a strong Fortresse fortified with seven great Towers and well furnished with Munition called by Turks Iadileke In this Prison are Bassawes and Subbassawes imprisoned and also great men of Christians if any offence be committed Their place of Exchange is called Bezastan wherein all sorts of commodities are to be sold as Sattins Silkes Velvets Cloth of Silver and Gold and the most exquisitely wrought Hand-kerchiefes that can be found in the world with infinite other commodities the relation of which would be tedious I have seene men and women as usually sold here in Markets as Horses and other beasts are with us The most part of which are Hungarians Transilvaniaus Carindians Istrians and Dalmatian Captives and of other places besides which they can overcome Whom if no compassionable Christian will buy or relieve then must they either turne Turke or be addicted to perpetuall slavery Here I remember of a charitable deed done for a sinfull end and thus it was A Ship of Marseilles called the great Dolphin lying here forty dayes at the Galata the Master Gunner named Monsieur Nerack and I falling in familiar acquaintance upon a time he told me secretly that he would gladly for Conscience and Merits sake redeeme some poore Christian slave from Turkish Captivity To the which I applauded his advice and told him the next Friday following I would assist him to so worthy an action Friday comes and he and I went for Constantinople where the Market of the slaves being ready we spent two houres in viewing and reviewing five hundred Males and Females At last I pointed him to have bought an old man or woman but his minde was contrary set shewing me that he would buy some virgin or young widdow to save their bodies unde floured with Infidels The price of a virgin was too deare for him being a hundred Duckets and widdows were farre under and at an easier rate When wee did visit and search them that wee were mindfull to buy they were strip'd stark naked before our eyes where the sweetest face the youngest age and whitest skin was in greatest value and request The Iews sold them for they had bought them from the Turkes At last we fell upon a Dalmatian widdow whose pitifull looks and sprinkling teares strook my soule almost to death for compassion whereupon I grew earnest for her reliefe and hee yielding to my advice shee is bought and delivered unto him the man being 60 yeares of age and her price 36 Duckets We leave the Market and came over again to Galata where hee and I tooke a Chamber for her and leaving them there the next morning I returned early suspecting greatly the dissembling devotion of the Gunner to be nought but luxurious lust and so it proved I knocked at the Chamber doore that hee had newly locked and taken the key with him to the ship for he had tarried with her all that night and she answering me with teares told mee all the manner of his usage wishing her selfe to be again in her former captivity whereupon I went a shipboord to him and in my griefe I swore that if hee abused her any more after that manner and not returned to her distresse her Christian liberty I would first make it knowne to his Master the Captaine of the Ship and then to the French Ambassadour for hee was mindfull also his lust being satisfied to have sold her over againe to some other At which threatning the old Pallyard became so fearfull that he entred in a reasonable condition with mee and the Ship departing thence sixe dayes there after he freely resigned to me her life her

to their Country Unlesse by extremity of Justice the one still hanged before the other the remnant by the gallowes may examplify amendment contrariwise that Land shall never be quiet for these villanous Wood-carnes are but the Hounds of their hunting Priests against what faction soever their malicious malignity is intended partly for intertainement partly for particular spleens and lastly for a generall disturbance of the Countrey for the Priests greater security and stay The other abuse is their Libertinous Masses the redresse whereof I first to the Heavens and then to my Prince bequeath whose Sabboth recusant mony whereof they bragge as they say in derision of our luke-warme dispensation tendeth to none other purpose but to obombrate the true light of the Gospell and to feed their absurd and almost irrevocable ignorance And neverthelesse at their daily meetings experience taught mee there was never a more repining people against our Prince and Church as they be for in this presumption twofold cause arriseth want of zeale and Church discipline in our parts and the officious nine penny Masse on their part yea all and each of them so exacted and compounded with a higher or lower rates as the officers in this nature please The distribution whereof I no wayes paralell to the sleight concavi●ting veynes of the earth nor the sole supply of high-rising Atlas neither to invelope the perpendiculars of long-reaching Caucasus how soever ●ect-demolished Churches unpassable bridges indigent Schollers and distressed families be supported therewith I am as cleare of it as they although I smart by the contrary confusion But leaving this and observing my Method I remember I saw in Irelands North-parts two remarkable sights The one was their manner of Tillage Ploughes drawne by Horse-tayles wanting harnesse they are onely fastned with straw or wooden Ropes to their bare Rumps marching all side for side three or foure in a ranke and as many men hanging by the ends of that untoward Labour It is as bad a husbandry I say as ever I found among the wildest Savages alive for the Caramins who understand not the civill forme of Agriculture yet they delve hollow and turn over the ground with manuall and wooden instruments But they the Irish have thousands of both Kingdomes daily labouring beside them yet they cannot learne because they will not learne to use harnesse as they doe in England so obstinate and perverse they are in their Barbarous consuetude unlesse punishment and penalties were infl●cted and yet most of them are content to pay twenty shillings a yeare before they will change their custome The other as goodly fight I saw was women travelling the way or toyling at home carry their infants about their necks and laying the Dugges over their shoulders would give sucke to the Babes behinde their backs without taking them in their armes Such kind of breasts me thinketh were very fit to bee made money-bags for East or West Indian Merchants being more than halfe a yard long and as well wrought as any Tanner in the like charge could ever mollifie such Leather Ireland is an excellent Country to live in for cheapnes and all variety of mans sustenance therefore I would intreat the Reader to take this description of it though already spoken of before but not so fully This Country of Ireland lyeth farre in the West Ocean and is accounted by the most expert in that kinde to be in length very neare three hundred Miles from North to South in bredth from East to West one hundred and twenty Miles It much resembleth the forme of an Egge being as it were blunt at each end and smooth or plaine on the sides not extending it selfe forth to sea in Nooks and Armes of Land as England doth The Country it selfe lyeth low and is very waterish And containeth in it divers little Islands and is much troubled with Bogs and Marishes Some of their highest Hills I have seene them had standing pooles of water on their tops the Country of it selfe is very fruitfull in all sorts of Cattell and very plentifull of all manner of graine The aire is very wholsome yet not altogether so cleare and subtle as England The inhabitants are much troubled with sicknesse as defluxion of Rhumes and bloody Flixes and for prevention and helpe thereof they drinke Aqua-vitae which they conceive doth dry up the Rhume and keepe them healthfull It hath beene very full of Wood and but little Champaigne ground It is mightily inhabited by our English and much civilized of late by the great care of those which are and have beene their Governours Sea-coale and Turffe is most of their fuell it hath great store of horses but of no great stature as they bee in England They have plenty of Fish and all manner of Fowle Great store of Bees which yields them no small profit Sheepe are the fewest and scarcest of all other Cattell and those are but small and yield very course Woole whereof the women spinne and make their Rugges and Mantles which they weare about them No Venemous or Creeping Beast is bred brought forth or nourished there nor can live there if it were sent in and therefore the Spider of Ireland is well known not to be venemous or hurtfull The most part of the better sort of people are inclined to vertue and Religion wondrous kinde amorous and loving where they take their first love but very revengefull and spleenfull otherwise There are many Sorcerers and Witches amongst this Nation The gentlemen are excellent horse-men delighted with exercise of warlike Armes and are both stout and couragious and very free and bountifull in their Almes and hospitality At the death of any friend or kindred they follow the dead corpes to the Grave with howlings and bitter cryings pittifull in outward shew They are very apt to believe and give credit to Miracles and old Prophesies Relations and foolish sayings They are very desirous of praise and honour but very fearefull of dishonour They love an excellent Poet who can or will extoll Saint Patricke and their owne Nation and will bountifull reward them As for any other customes they have to avoid prolixitie I spare onely before my pen flee over Seas I would gladly shake hands with some of our Church-men there for better are the wounds of a friend than the sweet smiles of a flatterer for love and truth cannot dissemble Many dissembling impudents intrude themselves in this high calling of God who are not truly neither worthily thereunto called the ground here arising either from a carnall or carelesse presumption otherwise from needy greed and lack of bodily maintenance Such is now the corruption of time that I know here even Mechanick men admitted in the place of Pastors yea and rude bred Souldiers whose education was at the Musket mouth are become there both Lybian grave and unlearned Churchmen Nay besides them professed indeed professed Schollers whose warbling mouthes ingorged with spoonefu's of

and so big that the little finger of it was as big as an ordinary man between whose legs it standing in the Harbours mouth with a leg on each side of the entery Ships were wont to passe under with taunt sails When Mnavi Generall of Caliph Osman first united this Isle to the Mahometan Empire and broke down the greatest part of this Statue the brasse whereof was said to be so much that it loaded nine hundred Camels This Isle belonged once to the Knights of Malta and were then sirnamed Knights of the Rhodes but they came first out of Acre in the Holy Land who were called Knights of St. Iohn who viriliously expulsed the Sarazens from thence Anno 1308. who had formerly taken it from the divided Grecians These Knights sorely in vested the Turkes for the space of two hundred yeares till Solyman the magnificent at last invaded and subdued it The Rhodians were ever good freinds to the Romans in somuch that when all the other Mediterranean Islands revolted to Mythridates of Pontus this onely adhered to the Romans This Isle of Rhodes within the space of 25 yeares was three times mightily indangered by violent and extreame impetuosities of raine in such sort that the last flood did drowne the greatest part of the Inhabitants which beginning in the Spring-time did continue to Summer and in all this time it broke violently downe their houses and in the night killed the people lying in their beds and in the day time such as were sheltered under safegard of their dwelling which was a miserable destruction and the like of it scarcely heard of since the universall Deluge But true it is as these Ominous judgments falling upon particular parts parcels of people are justly executed yet they serve for Caveats for all others in generall sinne being the originall of all to take heed of offending the Creator in abusing the bestuse of the Creature The Citie of Rhodes hath two strong Fortresses in one of which these Knights Lilladamus Villiers being great Master who were about five hundred onely and five thousand Rhodians who assisted them were besieged by an Army of two hundred thousand Turkes and three hundred Galleys for the space of sixe months The chiefe obstacle and impeaching of so great an Army from taking it was onely the resolute valour of the defendants But in end the multitude over-mastring valour and the Cavalieri di Rhodo wanting furniture to their Munition and being penurious of victualls were constrained to render upon the conditionall safety of their lives goods and transportation and remayned a long time without any habitation till the King of Spain gave them the barren Isle of Malta to inhabit This Isle of Rhodes was lost by the Maltezes Anno Domini 1522. And on Christmas day Solyman entred the Towne as conquerour though hee might justly have said as Pyrrhus once said of his victory over the Romans that such another victory would utterly have undone him he lost so many of his bravest Commanders and best Souldiers It is ever since in the fruition of Turkes The Fortresse of Rhodes and that Fortresse Famogusta in Cyprus are the two strongest Holds in all the Empire of the great Turke And by the way here I must record that if the Great Turke and his great Counsell were not good pay-masters to their Ianizaries and speedy rewarders of their common Souldiers it were impossible for him the Emperour or them the Bassaws to manage so great a State and to keep under obedience so head-strong a multitude and such turbulent forces for by your leave if a Souldiers industry be not quickned and animated with bountifull rewards hee hath lesse will to performe any part of Martiall service then a dead Coarse hath power to arise out of the Grave for what can be more precious to man then his blood being the fountain and nurse of his vitall spirits and the ground of his bodily substance which no free or ingenious nature will hazard to lose for nothing And whosoever shall argument or discourse upon sound reason and infallible experience may easily prove and perceive that these Commanders have ever best prospered which have most liberally maintayned and had in singular regard Military Arts and Souldiers otherwise the honourable mind would account it a great deale better to have death without life then life without reward yea and the noble Commander desiring rather to want then to suffer worth unrecompensed Rhodes ioyneth near to the Continent over against Caria now called Carmania under which name the Turkes comprehend Pamphilia Ionia and Lycia Caria by the Sea side hath Lycia to the South and Caria to the North The chiefe cities are Manissa and Mindum which having great gates being but a small Towne made Diogenes the Cynick crie out Yee Citizens of Mindum take heed that your City run not out of your gates The third is Hallicarnasso where Dionisius was borne who writ the History of Rome for the first three hundred yeares Of which Towne also the Province tooke the name for Artemisia who ayded Xerxes against the Grecians was by some Authors named Queene of Hallicarnasso This was she who in honour of her husband Mausoloa built that curious Sepulcher accounted for one of the worlds wonders it being twenty five cubits high and supported with thirtie six admirable wrought pillars After I had contented the master for my fraught and victuals who as he was an Infidell used me with great exaction I found a Barke of the Arches purposed to Cyprus with the which I imbarked being foure hundred miles distant This Tarterata or Demigalleyeot belongeth to the Isle of Stagiro anciently Thasia wherein there were Mines of gold in these times that afforded yeerly to Philip King of Macedon about fourescore talents of gold but now mightily impoverished and of no consequence The chief Town whereof is Palmapreto where divers Greekes hold the opinion Homer was interred having a famous Sea-port which is a common resting place for all the Orientall Pirats or Cursarces which maketh the Isle half desolate of people and these few scarce worthy of their dwellings Having past the Gulfe of Sattelia and the Isle Carpathia whence that part of the Sea taketh his Name wee boarded close along the coast of Lycia and the firme land of fruitfull Pamphylia the chiefe City of Lycia is Patras watred with the River Zanthus whence the people were called Zanthi afterward Lycians of Ly●us sonne to Pandion It lyeth twixt Caria and Pamphylia as Pamphylia lyeth between it and Cilicia The chief Town in Pamphylia is Seleucia built by Seleucus one of Alexanders successors on the East of Lycia within land bordereth Lycaonia c. Having left Pamphylia behind us we fetched up the coast of Cilicia sustaining many great dangers both of tempestuous storms and invasions of damnable Pirats who gave us divers assaults to their owne disadvantages our saylage being swifter then either their swallowing desires could follow or our weake

of the Drusians who being the off-spring of the Christians which under the Conduct of Godfrey Duke of Bulloine descended into these parts do still maintain their liberty against the Turkes The Signior whereof being threatned by the Great Turke fled to Cosmus Duke of Florence Anno 1612 leaving his two Sonnes behinde him the eldest to keepe Sydon and the yonger to remayn in a strong Fortresse on the West end of Mount Libanus The e●der brother forthwith yielded to the Great Turke the Signory of his Lands but the younger would never do it and so retaineth absolutely the Countrey of Libanus to this day making himselfe thereupon a mountainous Monarchall Prince Tyrus which is miserably brought to ruine Acre or Acon that hath yet some indifferent trade of Merchandize called formerly Ptolomeis Caipha called commonly Castello Pellegrino which hath nothing but the remnants of an ancient Abbey Caesarea who reserveth but onely the memory of ruines for there is no Hospitality in it except it be to savage Moores Ioppa or Iaphta is a Sea-port of small Barks but the decayed Towne containeth not one dwelling House save onely a high Tower which defendeth the Port from Cursares Here Ionah took ship to flie from God Here Peter raised Tabitha or Dorcas from death to life and where he lodging at the House of Simon the Tanner was in a Vision taught the conversion of the Gentiles And Baruti famous for so many Christian Armies that have besieged it is now composed of 800 fire-houses Lying north-Northeast of Sydon under Mount Libanus formerly called Iulia Foelix nigh unto which as fabulous stories report Saint George delivered the Kings Daughter by killing the Dragon It is also thought to be within Canaan standing in the Frontier of Phoenicia and is the b●st inhabited place of all the Holy Land Sydon and Ier●salem excepted Saturday morning before the break of day setting forward from Lydda through the curling playnes of fat-fac'd Palestine scarcely were wee well advanced in our way till wee were beset with more then three hundred Arabs who sent us from shrubby heights an unexpected shoure of Arrows to the great annoyance of all our Company For if it had not beene that our Souldiers shot off their Gunnes on a sudden and stood manly also to it with their Bows and Arrows for our defence wee had then miserably in the midst of their ravenous fury perished But the nature of the Arabs is not unlike to the Iackals For when any of them heare the shot of a Harquebuse they presently turn back with such speed as if the Fiends of the infernall Court were broken loose at their heels In that momentany conflict on our side there were killed nine Women five Men and about thirty persons deadly wounded which to our worthy Armenian Captayne and to the rest of our Heathnish Conductors bred no small griefe the mourning noyse among the multitude beeing also wondrous pittifull Till bright day came we stayed still in that same place expecting the dangerous mutability of our austere fortune and at our departure thence wee buried the slayne people in deep graves whereby Iackals should not open up their graves to eate their Corpes for such is the nature of these cruell beasts that they onely love to live on mans flesh these ravenous beasts as is thought are ingendred of a Foxe and a Wolfe Proceeding in our journy we entred about two of the clocke in the afternoone in the hilly Countrey of Iudea having two of their courses to Ierusalem which is about twenty English miles leaving Rhama on our right hand which contayneth some two hundred dwelling houses of one story high and ten miles distant from Ioppa from which it lyeth in the way to Ierusalem Here remayneth the Dragoman a Christian who receiveth and conveyeth the Pilgrimes to Ierusalem which land at Ioppa each Pilgrime paying seven Chickens of gold is furnished with an Asse to ride on all the way tributes at going and comming being discharged by their Conductor to whom they resigne this tributary mony Rhama is a Town inhabited by Christians Arabs and Moores not blacke Moores as the Affricans be but they are called Mori which are a kinde of Aegyptians and not naturally black but Sunne-burnt with the parching heate The whole Territory of Canaan is inhabited with these Moors some Turkes civill Arabs and a few Christians and scattered Iews The Arabians are for the most part Thieves and Robbers the Moores cruell and uncivill ha●ing Christians to the Death the Turkes are the ill best of all the three yet all sworne enemies to Christ. But when they know how to make any gaine by strangers O what a dissimulate ostentation shall appeare in these detestable Villains whose out-sides onely they seem to affect but intirely the in-sides of their purses and that is their ayme and forcible end wherefore they both toile with all and conduct strangers through many perils as eminent to themselves as accessary unto our inevitable destinies Time discussing all and money over-mastering time for Coine is the thing they must have though necessity sometimes may not spare it About foure of the clock before night wee arrived at Berah called of old Beersheba being eleven miles distant from Ierusalem Having a little reposed there giving our Camels Mules and Asses some provender but could get nothing for our selves from these despightfull Moores for what we carried with us was all spent except a little Water Wee embraced our Mountainous way as cheerfully as wee could for wee were exceeding faint and travelled that day above forty three miles whereby we might arrive at Ierusalem before the Gates were shut sustaining great drought burning heate pinching hunger and not a few other the like inconveniences And now about halfe way betweene Berah and Ierusalem I and two Armenians advancing our way a flight shot before the Company Wee I say unhappily rancountred with foure Moorish fellows driving before them six Asses loaden with roots and shrubs of Wood to burne who seeing us they thought alone layd hands upon us robbed us of our pocket monies whereat I resisting one of them pulled forth a broad knife and holding me by the Beard thought to have cut my throate if it had not beene for one of his fellowes who swiftly stayed him Well they leave us and following their Beasts our Soul●iers instantly appeared unto us whereupon we shouting the Moores fled to the Rocks and our foot Souldiers following apprehended two of the chiefest and brought them to the Captaine One of which had my money which I presently received backe againe but mine associates money was with them that escaped the Captaine and Ianisaries meane while carried the two Moores along with them thinking to execute them at Ierusalem But their friends and neighbours following fast on Horse-backe and on foote relieved them from the Caravan restoring back again the two Armenians money Whereat all the Moores were exceding glad and wee no ways discontented for if they had

fields and their horses standing tyed to a bush beside them whereat being greatly moved I approached them and perceiving the bodies to be richly clad with silken Stuffes easily conjectured what they might bee My host having told mee the former night that these two Barons were at great discord about the love of a young Noble woman and so it was for they had fought the combat for her sake and for their own pride lay slaine here For as fire is to Gun-powder so is ambition to the heate of man which if it be but touched with self-love mounteth aloft and never bendeth downeward till it bee turned into ashes And here it proued for that Ladies sake that tropp● amore turnd to Presto dolore Upon which sight to speake the trueth I searched both their pockets and found their two silken purses full loaded with Spanish Pistols whereat my heart sprung for joy and taking five rings off their foure hands I hid them and the two purses in the ground halfe a mile beyond this place And returning againe leapt to one of their horses and came galloping backe to Saramutza where calling up my host I told him the accident who when he saw the horse gave a shout for sorrow and running to the Castle told the Lady the Barons Mother where in a moment shee her children and the whole Towne runne all with mee to the place some clad some naked some on foote and some on horse where when come grievous was it to behold their wofull and sad lamentations I thus seeing them all mad and distracted of their wits with sorrow left them without good night And comming to my Treasure made speedy way to Castello Francko where bearing them the like newes brought them all to the like distraction and flight of feet Well in the mutability of time there is aye some fortune falleth by accident whether lawfull or not I will not question it was now mine that was last theirs and to save the thing that was not lost I travailed that day thirty miles further to Terra nova Whence the next morning beeing earely imbarked for Malta and there safely Landed I met with a ship of London called the Mathew bound for Constantinople lying in the Road where indeed with the company I made merry a shoare for three dayes and especially with one George Clerke their Burser who striving to plant in my braines a Maltezan Vineyard had almost perished his owne life Upon the fourth day they hoysing sayle and I staying a shoare it was my good luck within eight dayes to find a French ship of Tolon come from the Levant and bound for Tunneis by the way in going home With whom desirously consorted within three dayes wee touched at our intended Port. And now to reckon the gold that I found in the aforesaid purses it amounted to three hundred and odde double Pistols and their Rings being set with Dyamonds were valued to a hundred Chickeens of Malta eight shillings the peece which I dispatched for lesser But the gold was my best second which like Homers Iliads under Alexanders pillow was my continuall vade mecum Tunneis is the Capitall seat of its owne Territory and of all the East and lower Barbary containing ten thousand fire-houses And it is the place where old Carthage stood that was builded by the Tyrians and Phenicians of the Holy Land some threescore twelve yeares before Rome and had twenty miles in circuite Which City in these times was the soveraign Queen of Affrick and the onely envy and predominiant malice of the Romans being more then Romes rivall mate in greatnesse glory and dominion Neverthelesse in end it was taken sackt and burnt by Scipio the Affrican Roman some six hundred and two yeares after Rome was first founded her ruines large Territories without made subject to the ambition of Rome After which detriment desolate Carthage was rebuilded by Caesar and a Colony of Italians transported there flourished for a time till it was destroyed and over-runne by the Gothes and Vandals And lastly subdued by the Sarazens and Moores it was by them transmitted to the Turkish power who now is Master of it being no way answerable to the six part of the greatnesse it had before This Towne is situate in the bottome of a Creeke where the Sea for a mile having cut the bosome of the Land maketh a large and safe resting place for ships and galleys which Haven and t●wne is secured from Sea invasions by the great and strong Fortresse of Galetto builded on a high Promontory that imbraceth the Sea and commandeth the mouth of the Bay where in a Turkish Bassaw and a strong Garrison of Souldiers remain the Fort it self being well provided with armes men artillery and munition The Kingdome of Tunnies comprehendeth once the whole Countrey that the ancients called property Af●rick 〈◊〉 little Affrick being the old Numidia and was divided then in these five Provinces Bugia Constantine that of Tunneis Tripoly and Ezzebba In the Towne of Bugia lying half way twixt Tunneis and Algier and 40 leagues from either being now called Arradetz there was ancient beautifull Temples Colledges magnifick buildings Hospitalls and convents after their fashion but the Towne being taken and razed Anno 1508 by Peter King of Navarre it hath remained ever since without beauty or ornament save a few rustick Inhabitants The province of Constantine lyeth twixt Tunneis and Bugia the Towne Constantine now Abiro●h being Capitall and was surnamed Cortes and Iulia It is begirded with Rockes and ancient walles contayning eight hundred fire-houses wherein are the relicts of an Arke triumphant formerly built by the Romans and in this Province sixteene leagues within land was the Towne of Hippo now Bosen whereof St. Augustine was Bishop The Territory of Tunneis lyeth betwene the borders of Abirouh Westward and the limits of Tripoly Eastward being of length fo●rescore miles and on this Sea-coast lieth the Towne Biserta adorned with a commodious Haven and sixe Gallies the most s●elerate of condition and celerous in flying or following of all the cursares in Turkie Tripoly in Barbary commonly called so was once drouned by the Sea but now its situation was transported safely a little more Southward which sometimes was beautified with merchants of Genoa Ragusa and Venice but now become a den of theeves and Sea-pirats and so are all the marine Townes twixt Aegypt and Morocco The last province of the kingdom of Numidia is Ezzebba lying East from Tripoly and confining with Cyreno a pendicle of Aegypt The chiefest part whereof is Messaicke being twenty foure Leagues from Tripoly contayning many Villages and Townes on the plaines and Mountaines abounding in Silkes cornes and divers Fruites All these five Maritine Provinces have but narrow Inlands not advancing South-ward from the Sea coast above forty miles Here in Tunneis I met with our English Captaine generall Ward once a great Pyrat and Commander at Seas who in despight of his

eyne Whose glorious shades evanish no more seene And now to conclude as a Painter may spoyle a Picture but not the face so may some Stoicall Reader misconster and misconceiue some parts of this eye-set History though not able to marre the truth of it yet howsoever here is the just relation of nineteene yeares travells perfited in three deare bought voyages The generall computation of which dimmensious spaces in my goings traversings and returnings through Kingdomes Continents and Ilands which my paynefull feet traced over besides my passages of Seas and Rivers amounteth to thirty six thousand and odde miles which draweth neare to twice the circumference of the whole Earth And so farewell FINIS A Briefe and summary Table of the chiefest things contayned in this History Part the first THe first Plantation of Rome page 11. The seaven severall Hils of Rome and her seaven severall Rulers pag. 12. Saint Katherine of Siena pag. 13. Pope Clement the eight crowned Duke of Ferrara p. 14 Tyber had almost over-whelmed Rome p. 14. The Pilgrimes Dinner at the Popes Table p. 15 Romes Antiquities and Liberary p. 16. 17 The brazen Image of St. Peter and the-Superstition of Papists p. 18. 19 The first Plantation of Italy 22. A description of the Kingdome of Naples and of the foure Papal territories p. 23. 24 The Duke of Florence his patrimony p. 25 Romes avarice and ignorant devotion p. 28 Damnable leyes sprung from Idolatrous Loretta p. 28. 29 The teritories of Venice p. 39 The first plantation of Venice p. 39 The Venetians are sprung from the Romanes p. 41 Part the second THe antiquity of the Istrians p. 44 The Dalmatian live under subjection to the house of Austria p. 46 Ignorance and Sloth the two mothers of poverty and misery p. 48 A monster borne in Lesina p. 52 The chiefe Iles in the gulfe of Venice and of their Gouernment p. 53 Of the Common-wealth of Ragusa and the limits of the Kingdome of Slavonia p. 55 Foure thousand Spaniards starved to death p. 56 George Castriot Surnamed Scanderbeg p. 57 The invincible I le of Corfu p. 58 Vlisses was borne at Ithaca p. 60 A dangerous Sea fight p. 61 Of the I le Cephalonia p. 63 Zante inricht with Currans p. 64 Of the battel of Lepanto fought neare to Morea p. 65 The soile of Peleponesus p. 67 Of scurrile Arcadia p. 69 Of the great Begle●beg of Greece p. 73 Decayd Athens now Salenos p. 74 A Masse-priest slaine by a Captaine in a Bordell p. 76 The third part Candy of old had 100 Cities p. 78 The Governours and Gar●isons of Creete subject to Venice p. 78 An escape from murderers p. 80 A French Protestant by mee released from a Galley p. 82 The pleasant valley of Suda p. 85 Dedalus Laborinth en Ida. p. 86 Of the great towne of Candy p. 88 Certaine distances from Candy to Europe Asia and Affrica p. 89 A description of al the Iles Syclades and Sporades c. 94 The beautifull Dames of Sio and rich attire p. 102. 103 The heads of 800. Florentines cut off in the Castle of Sio p. 104 A blind Cosmographer bred at Oxford p. 108 Of the pursuite of two Turkish Galleo●s p. 110 False testimonies of Vagabonding Greekes dispersed abroad p. 118 A perticular Description of Greece and the I le Nigroponty p. 114. 115. 116 An exact Relation of Troy and her famous Antiquities p. 120. 121 c. My passing the Hellesp●nticke Sea to Constantinople p. 124. 125. c. The fourth Part. Bizantium re-edified by Constantine p. 133 A French Pultrone playing the Pallard at the Gallata 137 Fearefull Pestilence and Earth-quakes p. 138 The Duke of Moldavia turned Turke at Constantin●ple p. 143 Circumcised Turkes p. 143 Of the Turkish Church-men and their times of Prayers p. 144 Babylon lately recovered by the Persians p. 144 Of the birth of Mahomet his falling Sicknesse p. 145 Mahomets Lawes p. 147. 148 The first titles of the Popes p. 149 Mahomets promise broke p. 151 Of the Turkes Iustice and marriages p. 153. 154 Turkes Lent their opinion of Hel Paradise p. 157. 158 Of the number of all our Christian Emperours in the East and West p. 159 Of the first beginning of the Turkes p. 160 Of the great Turkes yearely Revenewes p. 163 Turkes are no Schollers yet great Politians p. 164. Of the great Forces of the great Turke p. 186. The fifth Part. Bajazet the Turkish Emperour taken by Tamberlan the Scythian King p. 172 The auncient Citty of Smyrna p. 173 Wealth is the mother of vice p. 174 The Temple of Diana in Ephesus sackt burnt and extinct p. 175 The I le of Rhodes and the Idol Collossus p. 177 Rhodes taken by Solyman the Magnificent 1522. p. 176 The Mausolacan tombe at Hericarnassus in Caria p. 181 The I le of Ciprus replanted p. 182 The Florentines attempt to conquer Cyprus p. 187 Tripoly and of Mount Lybanus p. 190 The Bishop of Eden on Lybanus p. 197 Turcomans accursed tites p. 198 The Bassa of Aleppo beheaded p. 202 Beershack on Euphrates my furthest travels in the East p. 200 Damascus and the forces of the Bassa thereof p. 206. 207 The speciall townes of the Holy Land p. 230 c. My arrivall in Ierusalem p. 232 The sixt Part. The antiquity of Ierusalem p. 238 The 4. hils of Ierusalem and the triumph of Titus p. 239 The old overthrows and present garrison of Ierusalem p. 240. The Iewish Kings and Christian Kings of Ierusalem p. 242. 243. The Temple of Salomon thrice builded and destroyed p. 251 A dangerous voyage to Iordan and to Mare Mottuum Ierico p 252. 253. 254. c. A Turpentine Rod brought from Iordan and given to King Iames. p. 258 The river Iordan and the towne of Ierico hardby p. 260 The glorious Chappell of the Holy Grave p. 266 Knights of the holy grave p. 272 The buriall place of the Kings and Queenes of Israel p. 274 Salomons fish-ponds and Christs Crub at Bethlem p. 277. 278 Lazarus tombe in Bithania and of Olivet and the Monuments there p. 282. 283 Grievous and fastidious travailing in the Desarts of Arabia p. 291. 292. 293. 294. 295. 296. 297 The nature of Camels and Dromidors and of the red Sea p. 269 The seaventh Part. Two yearely Seasons in reaping graine in Aegypt p. 301 3 Germans death in Caire p. 302 A favourable Turkish judgement p. 303 Of the great Citty of Grand-Caire p. 305 Of the length and boundes of Cayre p. 306 Of the Aegyptian Decorements p. 308 Of the nature of the Aegyptian Moores Christian Coptics their Religion p. 309 Of the Pyramides of Aegypt p. 311. 312. 313 Of the true Knowledge of the flowing of the great River Nylus p. 316. 317. 318 The alteration of Aegypt p. 321 Of the Reuenewes and Confines of Aegypt p. 322 The foure Patriarchall seas p. 324 Of the fabulous Country of Cyrene p. 325 A joyfull arrivall in Malta p. 329 The nature of