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17 the fields above two miles.” This we give as a specimen of his stile.

On discharging their covenant with the janizary, who was not contented with the former condition, the Frenchman objected to pay the same that Lithgow did the Turk belaboured them both with a cudgel till the blood sprang from their heads, and compelled them to double his wages. Such is the extortion of those rascals, who regard Christians no more than dogs; and it is always best for a traveller to content them at first, or he will be forced with blows, to pay twice as much. At Siltos and Abydos, so famed for the loves of Hero and Leander, but now called the castles of Gallipoli (at present the Dardenelles.) they arrived in a small frigate, where, two days after, eighty Christians, slaves, having murdered their captain, and the other Turks, and run away with the galley, passed the streights at mid-night, with little hurt, though the cannon thundered incessantly for two hours; and at last arrived in the road to Zante. Another galley attempting the same the year following: the poor slaves, in, were so wounded and galled with the great shot, and the ready to sink that they were forced to run on shore: