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11 mount Ida; near which, he disproved the assertion of there being no venomous ereature in Crete, by killing two serpents and a viper. Being disappointed at Candia, he was forced to return to Canea the same way he went, where, soon after, an English renegado, named Wilson arrived from Tunis, in his way to Phodes; and, after some conversation with his countrymen, the English soldiers, hearing that Lithgow was a Scotsman, he spoke as follows. “My elder brother, the master of a ship, was killed at Brunt island in Seotland, by one Keere; and though he was beheaded, I have long since sworn to be revenged on the first Seotsman I should see or meet, and therefore I am determined to stab this man to night as he goes home to his lodging;” desiring their assistance, whieh two of them promised, but the other three refused, meantime Smith found him at supper in a cutler’s house, where, aequainting him with this conspiraey, he was eseorted to his lodging by Smith and three Italian soldiers, passing by the ruffian and his confederates, who, seeing his treaehery diseovered, made his escape. Smith having thus most eminently served him twice, first in freeing him from the danger of galley slavery, and now in saving his life, Lithgow resolved to return the obligation, by diseharging