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cured his wound. He there embarked in a frigate for Peterasso, (or Patras, ) the capital of the Morea, where quitting the sea, he joined a caravan of Greeks bound for Athens, passing through Laconia, and the hilly and now barren country of Arcadia, encamping one night in the uninhabited villages of Argos and Mycenae; and finding in short no remains of ancient Greece, but the name. In seven days he arrived at Athens from whence he took shipping for the isle of Serigo, where during his stay at Capsalo, the captain of that fortress having killed a priest, whom he had found one night in a brothel, the governor of the island deposed and banished him. In the same boat Lithgow also embarked, and sailed to Candia, or Crete. Through this whole island he travelled twice, which no traveller in Christendom had done before. On setting out for Canea, being informed of the danger of robbers, he put his money in exchange, and had scarce got twelve miles, when he was beset by three Greeks and an Italian, who beat him cruelly, robbed him of all his clothes, and striped him naked, adding many threats; till at length, the Italian perceiving he was a stranger, and could not speak the Cretan tongue, asked him in his own language, where was his money ? He replied, he had only 80 byzantinos, which scarce
