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 cured his wound. He there embarked in a frigate for Peterasso, (or Patras,) the capital of the Morea, where quitting the sea, he joined a caravan of Greeks bound for Athens, passing through LaeoniaLaconia [sic], and the hilly and now barren country of Arcadia, encamping one night in the uninhabited villages of Argos and MyeenaeMycenae [sic]; and finding in short no remains of aneientancient [sic] Greece, but the name. In seven days he arrived at Athens from whcneewhence [sic] he took shipping for the isle of Serigo, where during his stay at Capsalo, the eaptaincaptain [sic] of that fortress having killed a priest, whom he had found one night in a brothel, the governor of the island deposed and banished him. In the same boat Lithgow also embarked, and sailed to Candia, or Crete. Through this whole island he travelled twice, whiehwhich [sic] no traveller in Christendom had done before. On setting out for Canea, being informed of the danger of robbers, he put his money in exehangeexchange [sic], and had searcescarce [sic] got twelve miles, when he was beset by three Greeks and an Italian, who beat him cruelly, robbed him of all his elothesclothes [sic], and striped him naked, adding many threats; till at length, the Italian perceiving he was a stranger, and eouldcould [sic] not speak the Cretan tongue, asked him in his own language, where was his money? He replied, he had only 80 byzantinos, which scarce