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13 him not to enter their sanetuary, because he was not of their religion; however, as the nights were long and eold, he was foreed every night to ereep into the midst of it to keep himself warm. From thence he went to Meeano, aneiently Delos, the ehief of the fifty-four Cyclades, where the eustom still continues of never suffering men to die, or children to be born in it; but when the men are sick and the woman big-bellied they are sent to Rhena, two miles distant, Zea, Tino, and Palmosa, once Patmos, where St. John wrote his Revelation, were the next islands which he visited; and thence sailing to Niearia, his vessel, in sight of it was chaced by two Turkish galliots into a bay, where, leaving the loaded boat, he and eight more fled to the roeks, from whence they annoyed the Turks with huge stones. The master and two other old men were taken and made slaves, and the boat and goods seized. In his way from Niearia to Sio, they were driven by a storm into a ereek between two rocks, where the shore being shelfy and the anchors eoming home a great lake was made, and seven of the crew drowned: the other eleven just before the boat sunk, by hasty rowing reached a eave within the mountain; Lithgow disembarked the last, as the rest had sworn if he pressed to eseape before they were all in safety they would throw