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17 straits at mid-night, with little hurt, though the eannon thundered ineessantly for two hours; and at last arrived in the road to Zante. Another galley attempting the same the year following: the poor slaves, in passing, were so wounded and galled with the great shot, and the galley ready to sink that they were foreed to run on shore: where, being apprehended, they were miserably put to death. Leaving the Frenehman with a Greek barber. Lithgow embarked in a Turkish frigate for Constantinople, “a little world, whieh he describes as yielding at a distanee such an outward splendour to the amazed beholder, of goodly churehes, stately towers, gallant steeples &e. that the world eannot equal it.” At his landing however, he “had a hard weleome;” for on leaving the boat the master saying Adio Christiano, four Freneh rengenadoes standing on the quay and hearing these words fell desperately upon him, blaspheming the name of Jesus, and throwing him down, beat him eruely, so that had not his friendly Turks leaped out of their boat and releived him, they would doubtless have murdered him. The other infidels standing by, said to him. “Behold what a Saviour thou hast, when those that were Christians, now turned Mahometans, eannot abide nor regard the name of thy