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 dames, They were shown also the ruins of King Priam’s palace, and where old Anchises dwelt. On a piece of a high wall, at the N. E. corner of Troy, our author found three pieces of rustcdrusted [sic] money; two of which he afterwards gave to the younger brothers of the Duke of Florence, then studying at Pratolina; the third and fairest, with a large picture on one side, he bestowed, at Aix in province, on his countryman Mr. Strachan then mathematician to the Duke of Guise, who presented it to his Lord.

On discharging their covenant with the janizary, who was not contented with the former condition, the Frenchmen 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 travaller to content them at first, or he will be forced with blows, to pay twice as much. At Sutos 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 captiancaptain [sic], and the other Turks, and run away with the galley, passed the