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8 lodging, nor any refreshment. The Candiots, a barbarous people thronging round him, seeming amazed at his wanting both company and their language, a compassionate female having privately made him signs that his death was concerted he stole away from them in the night, and lay till morning in a cave by the sea-side hungry and thirsty, and his heart fainting in him.

At sun-rising, he quited his lurking place, and about noon reached Canea, the second city of Crete, anciently Cydon. While he was there, six gallies arrived from Venice, in one of which was a young French gentleman, a protcstantprotestant [sic], born in Languedoc, who had been condemned by the senate to the gallies for life, for being accessary to the death of a young noble Venetian, in a quarrel concerning a courtezan. Having leave from his captain to come on shore with a keeper wearing an iron bolt on his leg our author commenced an acquaintance with him, and greatly compassionating his misfortune, (being at Venice when the accident happened,) contrived his escape at the hazard of his own life, by means of an old Greek woman, his laundress, who lent him an old owngown [sic] and a black veil for a disguse, Accordingly, Lithgow invited the