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7 setting out for Canea, being informed of the danger of robbers, he put his money in exchange, and had scarce got twelve miles, when he was beset by three Greeks and an Italian, who beat him cruelly, robbed him of all his clothes, and striped him naked, adding many threats; till at length, the Italian perceiving he was a stranger, and could not speak the Cretan tongue, asked him in his own language, where was his money? He replied, he had only 80 byzantinos, which scarce amounted to eightpence English. Not crediting these words, the robbers searched all his clothes and budget, but found nothing except his linen and recommendatory letters from several princes, particularly the Doge of Venice, whose subject they were: this moved the Italian to compassion, and he earnestly intreted the others to save our traveller’s life At length, they restored to him his pilgrim’s clothes and letters, but kept his blue gown and byzantinos, and as a passport gave, him a stamped peice of clay, to shew to any of their companions, if he met them, the band consisting of twenty. Travelling that day thirty-seven miles, he reached at night he miserable village of Pickehorno, where he could find neither meat, drink,