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 two Turkish galliots into a long creek, where the Turks were deterred from attacking them, by bonefires made by the Greeks for six succeeding nights; our traveller, as a stranger, being exposed every night to stand sentinel, in the midst of frost and snow, on the top of a high promontory, which, however, invited his muse to bewail his toilsome life, his solitary wandering, and his long distance from his native country. On the 7th day, two Venetian gentlemen, who had been ten years banished for murder, came down to see them with two servants, all well armed; and hearing our traveller's complaints against the Greeks for detaining his budget, and forcing him to endanger his life for their good, they soundly drubbed the master, and forced him to restore Lithgow’s things: carrying him within five miles of the town where they then resided, kindly entertaining him ten days, and at his departure made him a present of forty gold sequins: the first gift he ever received in all his travels. From thence be proceeded to Salonica in Macedonia, and then sailing along the Thessalian shore, saw the “two-topped hill” Parnassus, and a little ruinous village and castle, once the city of Thebes. In three