6
escaped by favour of a storm, and took shelter in Cepholonia (formerly Ithaca,) having seven of the crew killed, and eleven wounded; among the latter our traveller, in his right arm. Over this island he travelled, and on the second day hired a little boat to carry him to Zant, (anciently Zacynthus,) twenty-five miles distant, where a Greek surgeon cured his wound. He there embarked in a frigate for Peterasso, of Patras,) the capital of the Morea, where quitting the sea, he joined a caravan of Greeks bound for Athens, passing through Laconia, and the hilly and (now) barren country of Arcadia, encamping one night in the uninhabited villiges of Argos and Mycenae; and finding in short, no remains of ancient Greece, but the name. In seven dayt he arrived at Athens, from whence he took shipping for the isle of Serigo, (of old Cythera) where during his stay at Capsalo, the captain of that fortress having killed a priest, whom he had found one night in a brothel, the governor of the island deposed and banished him. In the same boat Lithgow also embarked, and sailed to Candia, or Crete. Through this whole island he travelled twice, which no traveller in Christendom had done before. On
