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The Totall Discourse of the Rare Adventures & Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travayles / from Scotland to the most famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affrica

Chapter 11: THE FIFTH PART
By William Lithgow
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A seasoned traveller recounts nineteen years of voyages through Europe, Asia, and Africa, offering descriptive accounts of cities, landscapes, peoples, and the laws, religions, and political arrangements he encountered. Organized in three books and ten divisions, the narrative mixes practical travel notes, ethnographic observation, and personal memoir, including harrowing episodes of imprisonment, torture, and legal redress suffered in Spain and subsequent appeals at court. Episodes of adventure, danger, and local custom are balanced with reflections on governance, religion, and social practice, producing a compendium of early modern travel observations and personal experience intended as both guide and testimony.

THE FIFTH PART

Close bounded Hellespont, Earths Mother sport

I leave: longst the Æolid lists, I Smirna court:

Thence Samothrace, and Rhodos, I accoast,

Which Lilidamus Viliers, manly lost:

The Lycian bounds, and steepe Pamphilian shoares

I strictly view: The sea Carpathian roares,

I land at Cyprus: Seline is the place,

Whence I that Kingdome, to Nicosia trace:

[V. 171.]From Famagust, faire Asia, then I courted

And Libanon; whence Cedars were transported

For Sions temple: And my toyles to crowne

I sight great Aleppe, Syriaes Lady Towne:

Then passing Mesopotame; Chelfanes land,

I stay at Beershack, on Euphrates strand:

Thence backe by Damas, Arabie Petrea,

Galilee, Samaria, mountainous Judea

I toyling came: And at Jerusalem,

I lodg’d neere Moriah, in a Cloystred frame.