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 and put it into a box to carry to Constantinople. The corpse was honourably buried at Aleppo, of which Lithgow was an eye-witness. And immediately the chiaux, by proclamation, fully invested the son in his father’s lands, offices, &c. Being disappointed going with the caravan to Babylon in the autumn, as has been already related, our traveller returned to Aleppo, where he staid till the spring, when he joined a caravan of Armenians and Turks, well guarded, bound to Jerusalem, hiring a mule from a Turk to carry his victuals. Their number was about 600 Armenians, Christian pilgrims, men and women, 600 Turks trafficing for their own business, 100 soldiers, three chiauxes, and six janizaries. The confusion of this multitude he describes as most grievous, on account of the extreme heat and scarcity of water, and narrow stony passages, in which they often fell one over another in great heaps, and the Christians were often well beaten by the conducting Turks. The owner of his mule was for three days very favourable to him, in order to have a share (he found) of his tobacco, of which he freely gave him a pound which he always carried with him, to procure the good-will of the Turks. At his walking, which he often did at dismounting, to stretch his legs, that were stiffened