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that nothing could be proved against him. Nevertheless, he chose to remain in safeguard in the cloister till the gallies were gone. Being disappointed of a passage to the Archipelago, Lithgow resolved to visit the city of Candia; and in his way passed by the famous haven, and through the pleasant valley of Suda, by the city of Rethimos, the labyrinth of Daedalus, and mount Ida; near which he disproved the assertion of there being no venomous creature in Crete, by killing two serpents and a viper. Being disappointed at Candia, he was forced to return to Canea the same way he went, where, soon after an English renegade, named Wilson, arrived from Tunis, in his way to Rhodes; and after some conversation with his countrymen, (the English soldiers), hearing that Lithgow was a Scotsman, he spoke as follows: “My elder brother, the master of a ship was killed at Burntisland in Scotland, by one Keere; and though he was beheaded, I have long since sworn to be revenged on the first Scotsman I should see or meet, and therefore I am determined to stab this man to night as he goes home to his lodging;” desiring their assistance, which two of them promised, but the other three refused. Meantime, Smith found him at supper in a sutler’s house, where, acquainting him with the conspiracy, he was escorted to his lodging by Smith and three
