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On the 7th day, two Venetian gentlemen, who
had been ten years banished for murder, came
down to see them with two servants, all well
armed ; and hearing our traveller’s complaints against
the Greeks for detaining bis budget, and
forcing him to endanger his life for their good,
they soundly drubbed the master, and forced him
to restore Lithgow’s things ; carrying him within
five miles of the town where they then resided,
kindly entertaining him ten days, and, at his departure,
made him a present of forty gold sequins;
the first gift he ever received in all his
travels.
From thence he proceeded to Salonica in Macedonia,
and then sailed along the Thessalian
shore, saw the “ Two topped hill” Parnassus,
and a little more east, a ruinous village and castle,
once the city of Thebes. In three days
from Ralonica he arrived at Tenedos, when meeting with two
French merchants of Marseilles
bound to Constantinople he and they resolving
to view Troy, hired a jauizary for their conductor
and guard, and a Greek for their interpreter.
Landing there, they saw many relicts of
old walls, and many ruined tombs some of which
were pointed out to them as the the tombs of
Hector, Ajax, Achilles, Troilus, &c. and also
those in Hecuba, Cressida, and other Trojan
