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9 to a tavern, where, with deep draughts of Leatic, he intoxicated this Argus, and left him asleep. Then disburdening his friend of his irons, he clothed him in a female habit,|and sent him out of the town, conducted by the Greek woman, and when past the guard and gate, our traveller followed him with his clothes, and, interchanging them, directed him over the mountains to a Greek convent, where he might be entertained till the Maltese gallies or men-of-war should there, on their way to the Levant.

In his way back our author was met by two soldiers of his nation, Smith and Hurgrave, who were coming to inform him that the officers of the gallies, and several soldiers were searching the city and the fields for him. Advising with them how to reach the Julian monastry, St. Salvador, where they lodged, they conducted him in at the eastern (the least frequented) gate of the city, where three other englishmen (of the garrison) were that day on guard, and with them happened to be eight French soldiers, their friends, who also agreed to escort him. Near his lodgings, four officers and five galley soldiers ran to seize him when the English and French drawing their swords, desperately wounded two