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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

Kingdome who after the Trojan War came and dwelt here and afterward being divided betweene nine pettie Princes it was subdued by Cyrus the first Monarch of the Medes and Persians After the subversion of which Empire this Isle was given to the Ptolomies of Aegypt from whom Cato conquered it to the benefit of the Romans The Dukes of Savoy were once Kings of Cyprus but the Inhabitants usurping their authority elected Kings to themselves of their owne generation and so it continued till the last King of Cyprus Iames the Bastard marrying with the Daughter of a noble Venetian Catherina Cornaro died without children leaving her his absolute heire And she perceiving the factious Nobility too head-strong to be bridled by a female authority like a good child resigned her Crown and Scepter to the Venetian Senate Anno 1473. Whereupon the Venetians imbracing the opportunitie of time brought her home and sent Governours thither to beare sway in their behalfe paying onely as Tribute to the Aegyptian Sultans 40000 Crownes which had been due ever since Melecksala had made Iohn of Cyprus his Tributary It was under their Jurisdiction 120 yeares and more till that the Turkes whoever oppose themselves against Christians finding a fit occasion in time of peace and without suspition in the Venetians took it in with a great Armado Anno 1570 and so till this day by them is detained Oh great pitty that the usurpers of Gods Word and the Worlds great enemy should maintain without ea●e that famous Kingdom being but one thousand and ●ifty Turks in all who are the keepers of it unspeakable is the calamitie of that poore afflicted Christian people under the terrour of these Infidels who would if they ●ad Armes or assistance of any Christian Potentate ea●ly subvert and abolish the Turkes without any disturbance yea and would render the whole Signiory thereof to such a noble Actor I do not see in that small judgement which by experience I have got but the redemption of that Countrey where most facile if that the generous heart of any Christian Prince would be moved with condigne compassion to relieve the miserable afflicted Inhabitants In which worke hee should reape questionlesse not onely an infinite treasure of Worldly commodities that followeth upon so great a conquest but also a heavenly and eternall reward of immortall glory The which deliverance Ferdinando Duke of Florence thought to have accomplished having purchased the good will of the Islanders with five Gallounes and 5000 Souldiers Who being mindfull to take first in the fortresse of Famogusta directed so their course that in the night they should hate entred the Haven disbarke their men and scale the walles But in this plot they were farre disappointed by an unhappy Pilot of the Vice-admiral who mistaking the Port went into a wrong Bay which the Florentines considering resolved to ●eturne and keepethe sea till the second night but by a dead calme they were frustrated of their aymes and on the morrow discovered by the Castle Whereupon the Turkes went presently to armes charged the Inhabitants to come to defend that place But about foure hundred Greekes in the westpart at Paphus rebelled thinking that time had altered their hard fortunes by a new change but alas they were preuented every one cut off by the bloody hands of the Turks this massacre was committed in the year 1607. Such alwayes are the torturing flames of Fortunes smiles that he who most affecteth her she most and altogether deceiveth But they who trust in the Lord shall be as stable as Mount Sion which cannot be removed and questionlesse one day God in his all eternall mercie will relieve their miseries and in his just iudgments recompence these bloody oppressors with the heavy vengance of his all-seeing Justice In my returne from Nicosia to Famogusta with my Trench-●an wee encountred by the way with foure Turkes who needs would have my Mule to ride upon which my Interpreter refused But they in a revenge pulled mee by the heels from the Mules backe beating mee most pittifully and left mee almost for dead In this meanewhile my companion fled and escaped the sceleratnesse of their hands and if it had not beene for some compassionable Greeks who by accident came by and relieved me I had doubtlesse immediately perished Here I remember betwene this Isle and Sydon that same Summer there were five galleouns of the Duke of Florence who encountred by chance the Turkes great Armado confisting of 100 gallees 14 galleots and two Galleasses The Admirall of which Ships did single 〈◊〉 her selfe from the rest and offered to fight with the whole Armado alone but the Turkes durst not and in their flying backe the Admirall sunke two of their gallies and had almost seized upon one of their galleasses if it had not beene for 20 Gallies who desperately adventured to tow her away against the wind and so escaped For true it is the naturall Turkes were never skilfull in ●anaging of Sea battells neither are they expert Mariners nor experimented Gunners if it were not for our Christian Runnagates French English and Flemings and they too sublime accurate and desperate fellows who have taught the Turkes the art of navigation and especially the use of munition which they both cast to them then become their chief Cannoneers the Turks would be as weak and ignorant at Sea as the silly Aethiopian is unexpert in handling of Arms on the Land For the private humour of discontented Cast-awayes is always an enemy to publick good who from the society of true Believers are driven to the servitude of Infidels and refusing the bridle of Christian correction they receive the double yoke of despair and condemnation Whose terrour of a guilty conscience or rather blazing brand of their vexed souls in forsaking their Faith and denying Christ to be their Saviour ramverts most of them either over in a torment of melancholy otherwise in the extasie of madnes which indeed is a torturing horrour that is sooner felt then known and cannot be avoided by the rudenesse of Nature but by the saving grace of true felicity From the Fort and Citie Famogusta I imbarked in a Germo and arrived at Tripoly being 88 miles distant where I met with an English Ship called the Royall Exchange of London lying there at Anchor in the dangerous Road of Tripoly whose loves I cannot easily forget for at my last good night being after great cheare and grea●er carousing they gave mee the thundring farewell of three peeces of Ordnance Tripoly is a City in Syria standing a mile from the Marine side neer to the foot of Mount Libanus since it hath beene first founded it hath three times beene situated and removed in three sundry places First it was overwhelmed with water Secondly it was sacked with Cursares and Pirates Thirdly it is like now to be overthrowne with new made Mountaines of sand There is no Haven by many miles neare unto it but a

came in bed for my lodging was in a little Chappell a mile without the Village on hard stones where I also had a fire and dressed my meate The Greekes visited mee oftentimes intreated me above all things I should not enter within the bounds of their Sanctuary because I was not of their Religion But I in regard of the longsome and cold nights was inforced every night to creepe in the midst of the Sanctuary to keepe my selfe warme which Sanctuary was nothing but an Altar hemb'd in with a partition wall about my height dividing the little roome from the body of the Chappell These miserable Ilanders are a kind of silly poore people which in their behaviour shewed the necessity they had to live rather then any pleasure in their living From thence I imbarked on a small barke of ten Tunnes come from Scithia in Candy and loaden with Oyle and about mid-day we arrived in the I le of Mecano where wee but only dined and so set forward to Zea. This Mecano was formerly called Delos famous for the Temple of Apollo being the chiefe I le of the Cyclades the rest of the 54. incircling it Delos signifieth apparant because at the request of Iuno when all the earth had abjured the receipt of Latona This Iland then under the water was by Iupiter erected aloft and fixt to receive her wherein she was delivered of Apollo and Diana erratica Delos c. Ovid. Vnsetled Delos floating on the maine Did wandring Laton kindly entertaine In spight of Juno fatned with loves balme Was brought to bed under Minerva's palme In this I le they retaine a Custome neither permitting men to dye or children to be borne in it but alwayes when men fall sicke and women grow great bellied they send them to Rhena a small Isoletta and two miles distant Zea to which we arrived from Mecano was so called of Zeo the sonne of Phebo and of some Tetrapoli because of the foure Cityes that were there of old Symonides the Poet and Eristato the excellent Physitian were borne in it The next Isle of any note we touched at was Tino This Island is under the Signory of Venice and was sometimes beautified with the Temple of Neptune By Aristotle it was called Idrusa of Demosthenes and Eschines Erusea It hath an impregnable Castle builded on the top of a high Rocke towards the East end or Promontore of the Isle and ever provided with three yeares provision and a Garrison of two hundred Souldiers So that the Turkes by no means can conquer it The Isle it selfe is twenty Miles in length and a great refuge for all Christian ships and Gallyes that haunt in the Levante From this Isle I came to Palmosa sometimes Pathmos which is a Mountainous and barren Iland It was here that Saint Iohn wrote the Revelation after he was banished by Domitianus the Emperour Thence I imbarked to Nicaria and sailed by the Isle Scyro which of old was the Signory of Licomedes and in the habit of a woman was Achilles brought up here because his Mother being by an Oracle premonished that he should be killed in the Trojan Warre sent him to this Island where he was maiden-like brought up amongst the Kings Daughters who in that time begot Pyrhus upon Deidamia the daughter of Licomedes and where the crafty Vlysses afterward did discover this fatall Prince to Troy As we fetched up the sight of Nicaria wee espyed two Turkish Galleots who gave us the Chase and pursued us straight to a Bay betwixt two Mountaines where wee left the loaden Boat and fled to the Rocks from whence wee mightily annoyed with huge tumbling stones the pursuing Turks But in our flying the Master was taken and other two old men whom they made captives and slaves and also seized upon the Boat and all their goods The number of us that escaped were nine persons This Isle Nicaria was anciently called Doliche and Ithiosa and is somwhat barren having no Sea-port at all It was here the Poets feigned that Icarus the sonne of Dedalus fell when as hee tooke flight from Creta with his borrowed wings of whom it hath the name and not following directly his father Dedalus was here drowned Dum petit infirmis nimium sublimiae pennis Icarus Icariis nomina fecit aquis Whiles Icarus weak wings too high did flye He fell and baptiz'd the Icarian Sea So many moe experience may account That both above their minds and means would mount Expecting certaine dayes here in a Village called Laphantos for passage to Sio at last I found a Brigandino bound thither that was come from the fruitfull Isle of Stalimene of old Lemnos This Isle of Stalimene is in circuit 90 miles where in Hephestia it's Metropolis Vulcan was mightily adored who being but a homely brat was cast down hither by Iuno whereby it was no marvaile if he became crooked and went a halting The sovereigne minerall against infections called Teera Lamnia or Sigillata is digged here The former name proceedeth from the Island The latter is in force because the earth being made up in little pellets is sealed with a Turkish Signe● and so sold and dispersed over Christendome Having embarked in the aforesaid Brigandine wee sayled by the Isle Samos which is opposite to Caria in Asia minor where the Tyrant Policrates lived so fortunate as hee had never any mischance all this time till at last Orientes a Persian brought him to a miserable death Leaving us an example that fortune is certaine in nothing but in incertainties who like a Bee with a sharp sting hath alwayes some miserie following a long concatenation of felicities It is of circuit 160 and of length 40 miles it was of old named Driusa and Melanphilo in which Pythagor as the Phylosopher and Lycaon the excellent Musicioner were born Upon our left hand and opposite to Samos lyeth the Isle of Nixia formerly Maxos in circuit 68 miles It was also called the Isle of Venus and Dionisia and was taken from the Venetians by Selim the father of Solyman East from Nixia lieth the Isle Amurgospolo in circuit twenty leagues it hath three commodious Ports named St. Anna Calores and Cataplino A little from hence and in sight of Natolia lyeth the Isle Calamo formerly Claros in circuit thirty miles and Eastward thence the little Isle of Lerno five leagues in circuit all inhabited with Greeks and they the silly ignorants of Nature South-east from this lyeth the Isle of Coos now Lango by the Turks called Stanccow the Capitall Towne is Arango where Hypocrates and Apelles the Painter were borne In this Isle there is a Wine named by the Greeks Hyppocon that excelleth in sweetnesse all other Wines except the Malvasie and it aboundeth in Cypre and Turpentine trees There is here a part of the Isle disinhabited in regard of a contagious Lake that infecteth the ayre both Summer and Winter There is abundance of Alloes found here so much esteemed

poor I distress'd Oft changing to and fro Am forc'd to sing sad Obsequies Of this my Swan-like wo. A vagabonding Guest Transported here and there Led with the mercy-wanting windes Of fear grief and despair Thus ever-moving I Yo restlesse journeys thrald Obtains by Times triumphing frowns A calling unrecall'd Was I preordain'd so Like Tholos Ghost to stand Three times four houres in twenty four With Musket in my hand Ore-blasted with the storms Of Winter-beating Snow And frosty pointed hail-stones hard On me poor wretch to blow No Architecture Lo But whirling-windy Skies Or'e-syld with thundring claps of Clouds Earths center to surprise I I it is my fate Allots this fatall crosse And reckons up in Characters The time of my Times loss My destinie is such Which doth predestine me To be a mirrour of mishaps A map of misery Extreamly do I live Extream● are all my joy I finde in deep extremities Extreams extream annoy Now all alone I watch With Argoes eyes and wit A Cypher 'twixt the Greeks and Turks Vpon this Rock I sit A constrain'd Captive I 'Mongst incompassionate Greeks Bare-headed downward bows my head And liberty still seeks But all my sutes are vain Heaven sees my wofull state Which makes me say my worlds eye-sight Is bought at too high rate Would God I might but live To see my native Soyle Thrice happy in my happy wish To end this endlesse toyle Yet still when I record The pleasant banks of Clide Where Orchards Castles Towns and Woods Are planted by his side And chiefly Lanarke thou Thy Countries Laureat Lampe In which this bruised body now Did first receive the stampe Then do I sigh and sweare Till death or my return Still for to wear the Willow wreath In sable weed to mourn Since in this dying life A life in death I take I le sacrifice in spight of 〈◊〉 These solemne vows I make To thee sweet Scotland first My birth and breath I leave To Heaven my soul my heart King James My Corps to lie in grave My staffe to Pilgrimes I And Pen to Poets send My hair-cloth robe and half spent goods To wandring wights Ilend Let them dispose as though My treasure were of gold Which values more in purest prise Then drosse ten thousand fold These Trophees I erect Whiles memory remains An epitomiz'd Epitaph On Lithgow's restlesse pains My will 's inclos'd with love My love with earthly blis My blisse in substance doth consist To crave no more but this Thou first is was and last Eternall of thy grace Protect prolong great Britains King His son and Royall Race AMEN Upon the seventh day there came downe to visit us two Gentlemen of Venice clothed after the Turkish manner who under exile were banished their Native Territories ten yeeres for slaughter each of them having two servants and all of them carrying Shables and two Guns a piece which when I understood they were Italians I addressed my selfe to them with a heavy complaint against the Greeks in detaining my Budgeto and compelling mee to endanger my life for their goods whereupon they accusing the Patron and finding him guiltie of this oppression belaboured him soundly with handy-blowes and caused him to deliver my things carrying mee with them five miles to a Towne where they remained called Rhethenos formerly Carastia where I was exceeding kindly entertained ten days And most nobly as indeed they were noble they bestowed on mee forty Chickens of Gold at my departure for the better advancement of my Voyage which was the first gift that ever I received in all my travels For if the darts of death had not been more advantagious to mee then Asiaticke gifts I had never been able to have undergone this tributary tedious and sumptuous peregrination The confluence of the Divine Providence allotting mee means from the losse of my dearest consorts gave mee in the deepnesse of sorrow a thankfull rejoycing Nigroponti was formerly called Euboea next Albantes and is now surnamed the Queene of Archipelago The Turks cognominate this Isle Egribos The Town of Nigropont from which the Isle taketh the name was taken in by Mahomet the second Anno 1451 and in this Isle is found the Amianten stone which is said to be drawne in threeds as out of Flax whereof they make Napkins and other like Stuffs and to make it white they use to throw it in the fire being salted The stone also is found here called by the Greeks Ophites and by us Serpentine The circuit of this Isle is three hundred forty sixe miles It is seperated from the firme land of Thessalia from the which it was once rent by an Earth-quake with a narrow channel over the which in one place there is a bridge that passeth betwene the Isle and the main continent and under it runneth a marvellous swift current or E●ripus which ebbeth and floweth six times night and day Within halfe a mile of the bridge I saw a Marble columne standing on the top of a little Rocke whence as the Islanders told me Aristotle leaped in and drowned himselfe after that he could not conceive the reason why this Channell so ebbed flowed using these words Quiaego non capeo te tu capias me This Isle bringeth forth in abundance all things requisite for humane life and decored with many goodly Villages The chief Cities are Nigropont and Calchos The principall rivers Cyro and Nelos of whom it is said if ● sheep drinke of the former his wooll becommeth white if of the latter coale blacke From thence and after 2● dayes abode in this Isle I arrived to Town in Masidonia called Salonica but of old Thessalonica where I staied five dayes and was much made of by the inhabitants being Iewes Salonica situate by the seaside betweene the two Rivers Chabris and Ehedora It is a pleasant large and magnificke City full of al sorts of merchandize and it is nathing inferiour in all things except nobility unto Naples in Italy It was sometimes for a while under the Signory of Venice til Amurath the sonne of Mahomet tooke it from this Republicke And is the principall place of Thessaly which is a Province of Macedon together with Achaia and Myrmedon which are the other two Provinces of the same This City of Salonica is now converted in an University for the Iewes and they are absolute Signiors thereof under the great Turke with a large Territory of land being without and about them It hath bin ever in their hands since Soliman tooke in Buda in Hungary Anno 1516 August 20. to whom they lent two millions of money and for warrandice whereof they have this Towne and Province made fast to them They speake vulgarly and Maternally here the Hebrew tongue man woman and child and not else where in all the world All their Synagogian or Leviticall Priests are bred here and from hence dispersed to their severall stations Thessaly a long the sea side lieth betweene Peloponnesus and Achaia Wherein

also the Tree to the which our Saviour was bound whiles Annas was making himselfe ready to leade him to Caiphas but that I will not believe for that Tree groweth yet being an Olive Tree They shewed us also the house where Saint Peter was imprisoned when his fetters were shaken off his legs and the prison doores cast open and hee relieved And where Zebedeus the Father of Iames and Iohn dwelt which are nothing but a lump of Ruines Thence we came to the decayed Lodging of Caiphas without the City upon the Mount Syon whereupon there is a Chappell builded and at the entry of that little Domo wee saw the stone on which the Cock crew when Peter denied Christ. Within the same place is the stone that was rolled to the Sepulcher doore of our Saviour being now made an Altar to the Abasines These Abasines are naturally born black and of them silly Religious men who stay at Ierusalem in two places to 〈◊〉 heer at Caiphas House on mount Syon and the other Convent on mount Moriah where Abraham would haue sacrificed Isaac They wear on their heads flat round Caps of a blackish colour and on their bodies long gownes of white Dimmety or linnen cloath representing Ephods the condition of themselves being more devout than understanding the true grounds of their devotion blind zeale and ignorance overswaying their best light of knowledge They being a kinde of people which came from Prester Iehans dominions And within that Chappel they shewed us 〈…〉 wherein say they Christ was 〈◊〉 the night before he was brought to the Judgement Hall Upon the same side of Syon we saw the place where Christ did institute the Sacraments and not far hence a decayed House where say they the Holy Ghost discended vppon the Apostles and also the Sepultures of David and his sonne Salomon Over the which their is a Moskie wherein no Christian may enter to see these monuments For the Turkes doe great Reverence to most of all the ancient Prophets of the old Testament From thence wee returned and entred in via dolorosa the dolorous way by which our Lord and Saviour passed when hee went to be crucified carrying the Crosse upon his Back And at the end of the same street say they the Souldiers met Simon of Cyrene and compelled him to helpe Christ to beare his Crosse when hee fainted Pilats Judgement Hall is altogether ruinated having but onely betweene the two sides of the Lane an old Arch of stone under the which I passed standing full in the high Way Here they shewed us the place where Christ first took up his Crosse and on the top of that Arch wee saw that place called Gabbatha where Jesus stood when Pilat said to the Iews Ecce homo A little below this they brought us to the Church of Saint Anna where say they the Virgin Mary was born And going down another narrow Lane they pointed into a House and said hee Dives the rich Glutton dwelt who would not give to Lazarus the Crums of Bread that fell from his Table this I suspend amongst many other things for all hold it to be a Parable and not a History And although it were a History who can demonstrate the particular place Ierusalem having been so often transformed by alterations Th●s I must need say with such lying Wonders these flattering Friers bring Strangers into a wonderfull admiration and although I rehearse all I saw there yet I wil not believe al onely publishing them as things in different some whereof are frivolous and others some what more credible But as I said before I will make no or very small distinction in the Relation From thence we came without the Eastern gate standing on a low Banke called the daughter of Syon that over-toppeth the valley of Iehosaphat unto an immoveable stone upon the which they said St. Stephen was stoned to death the first Martyr of the Christian faith and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers As we returned to our own Convent they brought us to Mount Moriah and shewed us the place where Abraham offered up Isaac which is in the custody of Nigroes or Aethiopians to whom each of us payed ten Madins of Brasse the common coine of Ierusalem for our going in to that place And the other monastry that these Abasines detaine is on mount Sinay in the Desarts where the body of S. Katherine lyeth buried which is richly maintained and strongly kept by the Aethiopian Emperor There are 200. Religious Abasines in it and 100 souldiers to guard them from the incursions of Arabs who continually molest them because Mount Sinay standeth in the midst of that desolate Arabian wildernesse and far from any civill or inhabited place being distant from Ierusalem above 70 English miles Next they shewed us the place where Iesus sayd Daughters of Ierusalem mourne not for me c. And neer unto this where the Virgin Mary fell into an agony when Iesus passed by carrying his Crosse Also not farre hence we beheld the place where as they say Iesus said to his mother woman behold thy Sonne and to S. Iohn behold thy mother Ascending more upward they shewed us the House of Veronica Sancta and said that our Saviour going by her door all in a sweat to Mount Calvary shee brought him a Napkin to wipe his face which he received and gave it to her again in which say they the print of his face remaineth to this day and is to be seen at Rome It is also said to be in a Town in Spain and another of them at Palermo in Sicilia wherefore I believe the one as well as the rest So out of one if Papists can make three By it they would denote Heavens Deitie But O! not so these three revolv'd in one Points forth the Pope from him his tripled Crown He weav'd these Napkins lying rear'd his seat For which this number makes his number great As concerning the Temple of the most High built by Salomon the description of which edifice yee may read in the 3 of Kings it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar at the taking of Ierusalem Anno Mundi 4450. Secondly it was rebuilded again by the commandement of Cyrus King of Persia after the Iews returned from the Captivity of Babylon but not answerable to the state and magnificence of the former For besides the poverty and smalnesse of it there wanted five things which were in the other First the Ark of the Covenant Secondly the pot of Manna Thirdly the rod of Aaron Fourthly the two Tables of the Law written by the finger of God And fifthly the fire of the Sacrifice which came down from Heaven which were the Symbols and ●adges of Gods favour and mercy shown to them and their forefathers in his covenant of Love This Temple afterward growing in decay Herod the Great that killed the young Infants for Christs sake who suffered for him before he suffered for them built another much

of our Germans the two Barons Signior Strouse and Signior Crushen with one Signior Thomasio tumbled downe from their beasts backes starke dead being suffocated with the vigorous Sunne for it was in May choaked also with extream drowth and the reflection of the burning sand and besides their faire was growne miserable and their water worse for they had never been acquainted with the like distresse before though it was always my vade Mecum Whereupon the Caravan s●aied and caused cast on their Corpes againe on their owne beasts backes and carried them to the side of a hard Hill wee digged a hollow pit and disroabing them of their Turkish cloathes I did with my owne hands cast them all three one above an other in that same hole and covering the Corpes with moulding earth the Souldiers helped mee to role heavy stones about their grave to the end that the bloody Iackals should not devour their corpes and to conclude this wofull and sorrowfull accident the other Germans alive bestowed on mee their dead friends Turkish garments because of my love and diligent care I ever did shew them which one of their empty Mules carried for me to Grand Cayro Whence with divers assaults and greater paines accoasting the third Castle with as great bewailing the losse of our friends as wee had contentment in our owne safety wee found this third Captaine both humane and hospitable Who indeed himselfe in person with his Garrison watched us all night and had a speciall care in providing Water for us all propining our Captaine and us eight Franks before supper with three roasted Hens and two Capons This Turkish Captaine told us there were three inhabited Townes in these Desarts the chiefest whereof was Sehan situate on the Red Sea having a harbor and shipping that trade both to Aegypt and Aethiopia whose commodities are silken stuffs and Spices which they transport from Mecha and carry to Melinda and the aforesaid places in Affricke But now lest I sink in prolixitie discoursing of sinking Sands and make good the Italian Proverbe Chi troppo abbraceo nulla stringe viz. That hee who would imbrace too much can hold nothing fast I desist from this Journall proceeding and punctuall discourse of my labori●us pen wherein notwithstanding the Reader I having laid open more than halfe of the Wildernesse may like that learned Geometrician who finding the length of Hercules foot on the Hill Olympus drew forth the portraicture of his whole body thereby easily conjecture by the former Relation the sequell sight of these Desartuo●s places and therefore the rest I will onely Epitomize in generall till mine arrivall at Saleack on the Confines of Aegypt Arabia is bounded on the West with the Red Sea and the Aegyptian Istmus On the North with Canaan Mesopotamia and a part of Syria On the East with the Persian Gulfe Chaldea and Assyria On the South with the great Ocean and Indian Sea This Countrey lyeth from the East to the West in length about 900 and some 3500 miles in compasse The people generally are addicted to Theft Rapine and Robberies hating all Sciences Mechanicall or Civill they are commonly all of the second Stature swift on foot scelerate and seditious boysterous in speech of colour tawny boasting much of their triball Antiquity and noble Gentry Notwithstanding their garments be borne with them from the bare belly their food also semblable to their rude condition and as savagiously tame I protest as the foure footed Citizens of Lybia They are not val●rous nor desperate in assaults without great advantage for a 100 Turks is truly esteemed to be sufficient enough to incounter 300 Arabs Their language extendeth it selfe farre both in Asia and Affricke in the former through Palestine Syria Mesopotamia Cilicia euen to the Mount Caucasus In the latter through Aegypt Libya and all the Kingdomes of Barbary even to Morocco This Arabia deserta is the place where the people of Israel wandred forty yeares long being fed with Manna from Heaven and with water out of the driest rockes In which is Mount Sinai where the Law of the two Tables was promulgated The most part of these Desarts is neither fit for herbage nor tillage being covered over with a dry and thick Sand which the wind transporteth whither it listeth in heates and mountaines that often intercept and indanger fatigated Travellers The Inhabitants here are few so are their Cities their dwellings being sequestrate dennes and haire cloath Tents The most of their wealth consisteth in Camels Dromidories and Goats Before our arrivall in Saleack wee passed the little Istmus of ground which parteth Asia and Affrica disioyning the Mediterranian and the red Seas Divers have attempted to digge through this strait to make both Seas meete for a nearer passage to India of whom Sesostris King of Aegypt was the first Secondly Darius the great Persian Monarch Thirdly another Aegyptian King who drew a ditch 100 foote bro●d and thirty and odde miles long But when he intended to finish it he was forced to cease for feare of overflowing all the lower land the red Sea being found to be higher by three cubits than the ordinary plaine of Aegypt Yet howsoever it was the ditch is hollow in divers parts and fastidious because of sand to passe over At Saleack we overtook a great Caravan of two thousand people twelve hundred Camels and Dromidores which were loaden with the ware of Aleppo and came from Damascus intending their Voyage for Cayro whose company we subtilly left and marched before them for receiving of water by the way for our selves and beasts out of Cisterns which we left dry behind us A Dromidore and Camell differ much in quality but not in quantity being of one height bredth and length save only their heads and feet which are proportionated alike and the difference is such that the Dromidory hath a quick and hard-reaching trot and will ride above 80 miles in the day if that his Rider can indure the pain But the Camell is of a contrary disposition For hee hath a most slow and lazie pace removing the one foot from the other as though hee were weighing his feet in a ballance neither can he goe faster although hee would But hee is a great deale more tractable then the other For when his Master loadeth him hee falleth downe on his knees to the ground and then riseth againe with his burthen which will be marvellous great sometimes 600 or 800 weight The Red Sea which we left to the Westward of us and our left hand is not red as many suppose but is the very colour of other Seas The reason for which it hath beene called Mare rubrum is only because of the banks rushes sands and reeds that grow by the shore side which are naturally red Some others have called it so in respect of the Brooks which Moses turned to red blood who misconstruing the true sense took Seas for Rivers It is vulgarly termed Sinus

in it and the tast agreeable to disgestion Departing from thence and coasting the maine shoare we had a Moorish Frigot in Chafe where seizing on her we found 16 Moores therein and sixe Christians three Men two Women and a Boy whom they had taken up in going betwene two Townes by the Sea side The Peasants were set at liberty and the Moores immediately preferred to chaines of Iron bloody lashes tugging of Gally oares and perpetual slavery Neere the marine and in sight of Naples wee boorded close by the foote of the Hill Vesuvio which in time past did burne but now extinguished It was here that the elder Pliny who had spent all his time in discovering the secrets of Nature pressing neer to behold it was stifled with the flame so that he dyed in the same place which is most excellently described in the Booke of his Epistles by his Nephew the younger Arriving at Naples I gave joyfull thankes to God for my safe returne to Christendome and the day following I went to review the ancient Monuments of Putzolo or Pute●li Which when I had dilligently remarked in my returne halfe way to Naples I met the aforesaid English Gentleman and Mr. Wood who neeedes would have mee turne backe to accompany them hither When come wee tooke a Guide and so proceeded in our sights the first thing of any note we saw was the stupendious Bridge which Caius Caligula builded betwene Putzolo and Baia over an arme of the Sea two miles broad Some huge Arches Pillars and fragments thereof remaine unruined to this day The next was the new made Mountaine of Sand which hath dryed up Lago Lu●rino being by an Earth quake transported hither at the foote of this ●abulous Hill we saw the remnants of Ciceroes Village Thence wee came to the Temple of Apollo standing on the East side of Lacus Avernus the Walles whereof and pendicles the Tecture excepted are as yet undemolished This Lake Averno is round and hemb'd in about with comely heights being as our Guide reported infinitely deepe and in circuite a short mile The West end whereof is invironed with the Mountaine of Cuma whither Aeneas arrived when hee fled from Dido Queene of Carthage and sister to Pigmalion King of Tyrus Advancing our way along the brinke of the Lake we came to Sybillaes Cave the entry being darke because of the obscure passage between out and cut through the maine Rocke our Guide strooke fire and so with a Flambo marched before us The first passage was exceeding high Cim● and the further end stopped with moulding earth Inclining to our right hand wee passed through a very strait and low passage and so arrived in Sybillaes Chamber which is a delicate Roome and Artificially decored with Mosaicall Worke Here it is said the Divell frequented her Company and where shee wrot her Prophecies From thence hee conducted us through a most intricate and narrow way wherein wee were forced to walke sidling in to a large and vast Room The Rockey vault whereof was hanging full of loose and long stones many of which were fallen to the bottome This great Cell or Hall is a yard deepe of blackish Water and was the dining Room of Sybilla In which hearing toward the further end ascriking noise as if it had beene the croaking of Frogs the hissing of Serpents the bussing of Bees or snarling of Wolves we demanded our Guide from whence such a sound proceeded Who answered they were Dragoris and flying Serpents praying us to Returne for the fellow was mightily affraid Whereat I laughing Replyed there was no such matter and Mr Stydolffe desirous to know it hee onely and I leaving the other two behind us adventured the tryall Having more then halfe way entered in this Sale stepping on huge stones because of the Water and I carrying the Flambo for lacke of aire being so far under ground the light perished Whereupon wee hollowed to our Guide but the Reverberating Eccho avoyded the sense of our words neither would he nor durst hee hazard to support us Meanewhile it being Hell-darke and impossible to find such a difficult way backe and tendering as by duty the worthy Gentleman I stepped downe to my middle thigh in the water wrestling so along to keep him on the dry stones Where indeed I must confesse I grew affrighted for my legs fearing to be interlaced with water Serpents and Snakes for indeede the distracting noise drew nearer and nearer us At last falling neare the voice of our guide who never left shouting wee returned the same way wee came in and so through the other passages till wee were in open fields Here indeede for my too much curiosity I was condiginly requited being all bemired and wet to the middle yet forthwith the vigorous Sunne disburdned mee quickly thereof from thence to be briefe wee came to the Bagni the relicts of Pompeis Village to the fort of Baja and the Laborinth of Ciento Camarello into the admirable fish ponds of Lucullus the coverture of which is supported by 48 naturall pillars of stony earth to the detriments of Messina Mercato sabbato and the Elisian fields Thence wee returned by the sepulcher of Agricula the mother of cruell Nero who slit up her belly to see the matrix wherein he was conceived and by the two decayed Temples of Venus and Mercury Crossing over in a boat to the Towne of Putzolo the chiefe monument wee saw was the ancient Temple of Iupiter who serveth now for their Domo or Parochial Church the latter Idolatry of which is nothing inferiour to the former Meanwhile here arrived the French Gallies fetching home Chevalier du Vandum the Prior of France from Malta Who scouring the coast of the lower Barbary their fortune was to fall upon a misfortunate English ship belonging to Captain Pennington which they as a Cursaro or man of warre confiscated Their Anchors fallen I boorded the Queenes Galley where to my great griefe I found a Countrey-man of speciall acquaintance George Gib of Burowtownnes who was Pilot to the English fast chained to an oare with shaven head and face Who had his owne shippe twice seased on by the Turkes at Mamora which ship he lastly recovered at the Isle Sardinia and sold her at Naples being miserably worme eaten To whose undeserved miseries in my charitable love I made a Christian oath that at my arrivall in England I should procure by the helpe of his friends his Majesties letters to the Duke of Guyse Admirall for hindeliverance But soon thereafter being of a great spirit his heart broak and so died in Marseiles Tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis Et fugiuunt fraeno non remorante Dies Times slide away grey heires come postring on No reyne can hold our days so swiftly gon Departing from Putzolo we came to the Selphatara where the fine Brimstone is made which is a prety incircling Plain standing upon a moderate hight having three vents through two of which the

no ill can parallell them But sure this gift from course of nature came Rais'd vp by Heaven to be my nursing Dame For she a Savage bred yet shews more Love And humane pitty then desert could moove Wherein shee stain'd the Spaniards they did nought But what revenge on slaughter'd sorrow wrought Thus they who turn'd her went themselves astray And shee thought ignorant trac'd the Christian way For which great God reward her make her soule As white within as she without is foule And if I might as reason knowes I would Her love and praise my deeds should crowne with gold Now about the middle of Lent Hazier my former Friend was appoynted to attend me agayne suspecting Ellenors compassion but as my miseries were multiplied my Patience in God was redoubled For men are rather killed with the impatience they have in adversity then adversity it selfe And of all men that man is most vnhappy to whom God in his troubles hath not given Patience for as the violent enemy of age is griefe so is the mindes impatiency the arch corruptor of all our troubles But indeede in the weakenesse of judgement when men seeme lost by long affliction to themselves then they are often and ever neerest to God for who would have thought that I who had seene so many sexs and varieties of Religion dispersed over the face of the earth could have stucke fast to any Religion at all Travailers being reputed to be Vbique et ●mnibus parati But I will tell thee Christian it was the grace of God in me and not mine For as fire lying hid vnder ashes and touch'd will flame so I seeming to my selfe carelesse of Christianity then God pricking my Conscience made tryall of my Faith For Christ forbid that every Shippe which coasteth the rockey shoare should leave her ruines there This I speake not for any selfe-prayse but to glorifie God and to condemne the rash censures of opinion and with Phocion I mistrust my selfe because of popular applause Erubuit quasi peccasset quod placuerit But now to abbreviat a thousand Circumstances of my Lamentable sufferings which this Volume may not suffer to contain By Gods great providence about a fortnight before Easter Anno 16●1 there came a Spanish Cavaliere of Grenada to Malaga whom the Governour one night invited to Supper being of old acquaintance where after Supper to intertaine Discourse the Governour related and disclosed to the stranger God working thereby my discovery and deliverance all the proceedings and causes of my first apprehending my confessions Torments starvings their mistaking of the English Fleete and finally the wresting of the Inquisition upon me and their Condemnatory Sentence seeming also much to Lament my mis-fortunes and praising my Travailes and Deserts Now all this while the Gentlemans servant a Flandrish Fleming standing at his Maisters back and adhering to all the Governours Relations was astonished to heare of a sakelesse Stranger to have indured and to indure such damnable Murther and Cruelty Whereupon the Discourse ending and midnight past the Stranger re●urned to his Lodging where the Fleming having bedded his Master and himselfe also in another Roome he could not sleepe all that night and if hee slumbered still hee thought hee saw a man Torturing and burning in the fire which he confessed to Mr. Wilds when morning came Well he longed for day and it being come and hee cloathed hee quietly left his lodging inquiring for an English Factor and comming to the House of Mr. Richard Wilds the chiefe English Consull Hee told him all what hee heard the Governour tell his Master but could not tell my name only Master Richard Wilds conjectur'd it was I because of the others report of a Traveller and of his first and former acquaintance with me there Whereupon the Fleming being dismissed he straight sent for the other English Factors Mr. Richard Busbitch Mr. Iohn Corney Mr. Hanger Mr. Stanton Mr. Cooke Mr. Rowley and Mr. Woodson where advising with them what was best to be done for my reliefe they sent Letters away immediatly with all post dilligence to Sir Walter Aston his Maiesties Ambassadour lying at Madrile Vpon which hee mediating with the King and Counsell of Spaine obtained a straight warrant to command the Governor of Malaga to deliuer mee ouer in the English hands which being come to their great disliking I was released on Easter satturday before midnight and carryed uppon Hazier the slaues backe to Master Busbitches house where I was carefully attended till day light Meanewhile by great fortune there being a Squader of his Maiesties Ships lying in the Road Sir R●chard Halkins came early ashoare accompanied with a strong trayne and receiued mee from the Merchants whence I was carryed on mens armes in a payre of blanquets to the Vangard his Maiesties ship And three dayes thereafter I was transported to a ship bound for England the Fleets victualler named the good will of Harwich by direction of the Generall Sir Robert Maunsell where being well placed and charge given by Sir Richard Halkins to the ships master William Westerdale for his carefulnes toward the preservation of my life which then was broght so low miserable The aforesaid Merchants ●ent me from shoare besides the ships Victuals a suite of Spanish apparrell twelue Hens with other poultry and a barrell of Wine a Basket full of Egges two Roves of Figges and Rasins two hundred Orenges and Lemmons eight pounds of Sugar a number of excellent good bread and two hundred Realls in Siluer and Gold besides two double Pistolls Sir Richard Halkins sent mee as a token of his loue The kindnesses of whom to bury in oblivion were in me the very shame of ingratitude I being then a lost man and hopelesse of life which argued in them a greater singularitie of kindnesse and compassion Yet I remember for all my lamenes and distraction I intreated Sir Richard Halkins to goe ashoare to the Governour and demand him for my Gold my eight Patents my Booke of Armes and his Maiesties Letters and Seales the which he willingly obeyed being accompanied with Captain Cave and Captaine Raymond but could obtaine nothing at all save blandements and leying excuses And now on the twelfth day of our lying in the Road our ship weighing her Anchors and hoysing her Sailes wee passed through the straits of Gibelterre fretum Herculeum for this was the furthest Land that Hercules could attayne vnto which made him erect a Pillar and indent thereon nilultra but when Charles the fift returned from that untoward voyage of Algier hee caused to bee set vp in the same place Plus vltra Here in this Channell I remarked a perpetuall current flowing from the Ocean to the Mediterrene Sea without any regresse which indeed is admirable the Mediterranean Seas being hembd in and environed with the mayne Continent of South Europe the North and North west coasts of Asia and the Northerne part of Affricke save onely the narrow

on Edenbrugh and prosecuting the Tennor of a Regall Commission which partly beeing some-where obeyed and other-where suspended it gave mee a large sight of the whole Kingdome both Continent and Iles. The particular Description whereof in all parts and of all places besides Ports and Rivers I must referre to the owne Volume already perfected In●i●ula●ed Lit●g●wes Surueigh of Scotland which this Worke may not Containe nor time suffer to publish till a fi●ter ●ccasion Only Commenting a little upon some generalls I hasten to be at Finis Traversing the Westerne Iles whose inhabitants like to as many Bulwarkes are abler and apter to preserve and defend their libertie and precincts from incursive invasions then any neede of Forts or Fortified places they have or can be required there Such is the desperate courage of these awfull Hebridians I arrived I say at the I le of Arrane Anno 1628. where for certayne dayes in the Castle of Braidwicke I was kindly intertayned by the illustrious Lord Iames Marquesse of Hammilton Earle of Arrane and Cambridge c. Whom GGD may strengthen with the liveliest Heart And fearelesse Minde of all ere fac'd that Art For Bohems Queene Heauens prosper His intent With Glorious Successe and a Braue euent That by a King beene Sped for a Kings Sake To helpe a King all Three from Him may take Auspicuous Seruice frienship faithfull Loue Gainst whom and his no time can breach improue Let then great God blest Sparkes of fauour fall On his Designes and Theirs our Friends and All And Angels Guard Him let Thy Mighty hand Partition-like twixt Him and dangers stand That Martiall ends and Victory may Crowne His happie Hopes his Life with Loue Renowne This I le of Arrane is thirty miles long eight in bread●h and distant from the Maine twenty foure Miles being sur-clouded with Goatfield Hill which with wide-eyes ouer-looketh our Westerne Continent and the Northerne Countrey of Ireland bringing also to ●igh● in a cleare Summers day the I le of Manne and t●e higher Coast of Cumberland A larger prospect no Mountaine in the World can show poynting out three Kingdomes at one sight Neither any like Isle or brauer Gentry for good Archers and hill-houering Hunters Hauing againe re-shoared the Maine I coasted Galloway euen to the Mould that butteth into the Sea with a large Promontore being the south-most part of the Kingdome And thence footing all that large Countrey to Dumfreis and so to Carlile I found heere in Galloway in diuerse Rode-way Innes as good Cheare Hospitality and Seruiceable attendance as though I had beene ingrafted in Lombardy or Naples The Wool of which Countrey is nothing inferiour to that in Biscai of Spaine prouiding they had skill to fine Spin Weaue and labour it as they should Nay the Calabrian silke had neuer a better luster and softer gripe then I haue seene and touched this growing wool there ●n sheepes backes the Mutton whereof excelleth in sweetnesse So this Country aboundeth in Bestiall especially in little Horses which for mettall and Riding may rather be tearmed bastard Barbes then Gallowediau Nagges Likewise their Nobility and Gentry are as courteous and euery way generously disposed as either discretion would wish and honour Command that Cunningham being excepted which may be called the Accademy of Religion for a sanctified Clergy and a godly people certainly Galloway is become more ciuill of late then any Maritine Country bordering with the Westerne Sea But now to obserue my former Summary condition the length of the Kingdome lyeth South and North that is betweene Dungsby head in Cathnes and the fore-said Mould of Galloway being distant● per rectam li●eam which my weary feet ●road ouer from poynt to poynt the way of ●ochreall Carrick Kyle Aire Glasgow Stirueling St. Iohns Towne Stormount the Blair of Ath●ll the Br● of Mar Badeynoh Innernes Rosse Sutherland and so to the North Promontore of Cathnes extending to three hundred twenty miles which I reck●n to be foure hundred and fifty English miles Confounding hereby the ignorant presumption of blind Cosmographers whom their Mappes make England longer than Scotland when contrariwise Scotland out-strippeth the other in length a hundred and twenty miles The breadth whereof I grant is narrower than England yet extending betweene the extremities of both Coasts in diuers parts to threescore fourescore and a hundred of our miles But because of the Sea ingulfing the Land and cutting it in so many Angles making great Lakes Bayes and dangerous Firths on both sides of the Kingdome the true breadth thereof cannot iustly be coniectured nor soundly set downe Our chiefest fresh water Lakes are these Lochlomond contayning twenty ●oure Iles and in length as many miles divers whereof are inriched with Woods Deere and other Bestiall The large and long Lake of Loch Tay in Atholl the Mother and Godmother of Head-strong Tay the gr●atest Riuer in the Kingdome And Lochnes in the higher parts of Murray the Riuer whereof that graceth the pleasant and commodious situation of Innerne● no ●rost can freize The propriety of which water wil quickly melt and dissolue any hard congealed lumps of frozen ●ce be it on Man or Beast stone or tim●er The chiefest Rivers are Clyde Tay Tweed Forth Dee Spay Nith Nesse and Dingwells flood ingorging Lake that confirmeth Porta salutis being all of them where they returne their tributs to their father Ocean portable and as it were resting places for turmoyled seas and ships And the principall Townes are Edenbrough Perth Glasgow Dundie Abirdene St Andrewes Aire Stirveling Lithgow Dumfreis Innernes Elgin Minros Iedburgh Hadington Leith c. and for antiquity old Lanerk c. So the most delicious soiles of the Kingdome are these following first the bounds of Clyde or Cliddisdale betweene Lanerk and Dunbertan distanced twenty sixe miles and thence downeward to Rossay that kisseth the divulgements of the River the beginning whereof is at Arick● stone sixeteene miles above Lanerk whose course contendeth for threescore miles All which being the best mixed Country for Cornes Meeds Pastorage Woods Parks Orchards Castles Pallaces divers kinds of Coale and earth-fewell that our included Albion produceth And may justly be surnamed the Paradise of Scotland Besides it is adorned on both borders along with the greatest peeres and Nobility in the Kingdome The Duke of Lennox the Marques of Hammilton the Earle of Angus the Earle of Argile and the Earles of Glencarne Wigton and Abircorn And for Lord Barons Semple Rosse Blantyre and Dalliell The chiefest Gentry whereof are the Knights and Lairds of Luce Skell murelie Bl●khall Greenock Newwark Houston Pook-maxwell Sir George Elpingston of Blythswood Minto Cambusnethen Calderwood the two Knights of Lieye and Castel-hill Sir Iames Lokharts elder yonger Lamington Westraw his Majesties Gentleman Sewer Blakwood Cobinton Stanebyres and Corhous c. All which in each degree as they illuminat the soile with grandure so the soyle reflecteth on them againe with beauty bounty and riches But least I partiall prove