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by a stumbling beast, they laughed and mocked him, it being their custom, at alighting, to sit down immediately, and fold their feet under them. On the ninth day they arrived at Damascus, and were lodged three days in a great khan, at the grand Signior’s expence; a privilege allowed to all strangers who come with a caravan.
On Palm Sunday, in the morning, 1612, the caravan entered Jerusalem, and at the gate they were all searched for arms and ammunition. The Armenians were obliged to deliver up their weapons, and Lithgow's name was written in the clerk’s book, that his tribute for the gate, and for seeing the sepulchre, might, before his departure, be paid together. The gates were of iron outwardly, and above each gate was planted brazen cannon.
Taking his leave of his companions, who lodged with their own Patriarch, our author was met, and received in the streets, by the guardian and twelve friars, each carrying a lighted wax candle, and one for him also, and singing Te Deum all the way to their monastery, they greatly rejoicing that a Christian had come from such a far country as Scotland to visit Jerusalem. But when they knew afterwards that he was no Popish
