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amounted to eightpenee English Not crediting these words, the robbers, searched all his elothes and budget, but found nothing exeept his linen and reeommendatory letters from several princes, partieularly the Doge of Veniee, whose subjects they were: this moved the Italian to eompassion, and he earnestly intreated the others to save our traveller’s life, at length they restored to him his pilgrim’s clothes and letters, but kept his blue gown and byzantinos, and as a passport gave, him a stamped piece of clay, to shew to any of their eompanions, if he met them, the band eonsisting of twenty. Travelling that day thirty seven miles, he reaehed at night the miserable village of Pickehorno, where he eould find neither meat, drink, lodging, nor any refreshment. The Candiots, a barbarous people thronging round him, seeming amaxed at his wanting both eompany and their language, a compassionate female having privately made him signs that his death was eoncerted, he stole away from them in the night, and lay till morning in a eave by the seaside hungry and thirsty, and his heart fainting in him.
At sun-rising, he quitted his lurking plaee, and about noon reached Canea, the seeond city of Crete, aneiently Cydon. While he was there, six gallies arrived Iron Veniee, in one of which
