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8 amounted to eightpence English Not crediting these words, the robbers, searched all his clothes and budget, but found nothing except his linen and recommendatory letters from several princes, particularly the Doge of Venice, whose subjects they were: this moved the Italian to compassion, and he earnestly intreated the others to save our traveller’s life, at length they restored to him his pilgrim’s clothes and letters, but kept his blue gown and byzantinos, and as a passport gave, him a stamped piece of clay, to shew to any of their companions, if he met them, the band consisting of twenty. Travelling that day thirty-seven miles, he reached at night the miserable village of Pickehorno, where he could find neither meat, drink, lodging, nor any refreshment. The Candiots, a barbarous people thronging round him, sceming amaxed at his wanting both company and their language, a compassionate female having privately made him signs that his death was concerted, he stole away from them in the night, and lay till morning in a cave by the seaside hungry and thirsty, and his heart fainting in him. At sun-rising, he quitted his lurking place, and about noon reached Canea, the second city of Crete, anciently Cydon. While he was there, six gallies arrived fron Venice, in one of which