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slaves, in passing, were so wounded and galled with the great shot, and the galley ready to sink, that they were forced to run on shore, where, being apprehended, they were miserably put to death.
Leaving the Frenchman with a Greek barber, Lithgow embarked in a Turkish frigate for Constantinople, “a little world, which he describes as yielding, at a distance, such an outward splendour to the amazed beholder of goodly churches, stately towers, gallant
Steeples, &c. that the world cannot equal it.” At his landing, however, he “had a hard welcome;” for on leaving the boat, the master saying Adio Christiano, four French renegadoes standing on the quay, and hearing these words, fell desparately upon him, blaspheming the name of Jesus, and throwing him down, beat him cruelly, so that had not his friendly Turks leaped out of their boat and relieved 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, cannot abide nor regard the name of thy God!’ Entering into a Greek lodging, he was much eased of his blows by their anointing him with divers oils, and kindly received and refreshed gratis, because he had suffered so much for Christ’s sake. Next
