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him into the sea. Nothing was saved but his eoffer made of reeds in which he earried his papers and linen, and held it always in his arms. In this eave, which was 30 paees long, they abode three days without meat and drink, till, on the fourth, the tempest eeasing some fishing boats relieved them. Seventeen other boats were cast away on this coast and not a man saved. Through this island Lithgow travelled with a thankful heart to Sio the eapital, where, passing by an old castle, he was told that Homer’s sepulchre was still extant there; and being desirous to see it, hedeseended by sixteen steps into a dark cell, and through that to another square room, where he saw an aneient tomb on which were engraven some aneient Greek letters, which he eould not understand. By Mitylene, or Lesboa he next sailed in a earmoesalo to Negropoint (of old Euboea,) and in their way they were ehased by two Turkish galliots into a long creek, where the Turks were deterred from attacking them, by bonfires made by the Greeks for six sueeeeding nights, our traveller, as a stranger, being exposed every night to stand eentinel in the midst of frost and snow, on the top of a high promontory whieh however invited his mule to bewail his toilsome life, his solitary wandering, and his long distance from his native eountry.
