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23 well beaten by the conducting Turks. The owner of his mule was for three days very favorable to him, in order to have a share (he found) of his tobacco, of which he then 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 streach his legs that were stiffned by a stumbling beast they laughed and mocked him, it being their custom, at alighting to sit down immediately, and fold their feet under them On the ninth day they arrived at Damascus, and were lodged three days there in a great khan, the grand signior’s expence; a privilege allowed to all strangers who come with a caravan.

On Palm Sunday, in the morning, 1612, the caravan entering Jerusalem, and at the gate, they were all searched for arms and acmonitionammonition [sic]. The Armenians were obliged to deliver up their weapons, and Lithgow’s name was written in the clerks book, that his tribute for the gates, and for seeing the sepulcher; might, before his departure, be paid together. The gates were of iron inwardly, and above each gate was planted brazen cannon.