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 9: THE THIRD PART

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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 THIRD PART

Now Creta comes, the Mediterren Queene,
To my sought view, where golden Ida’s seene:
Cut with the Labrinth of th’ old Minatoure,
Thence tracd I all, the Syclads fifty foure:
With Nigropont and Thessaly amaine,
Macedon, Pernassus, the Achaian plaine;
Tenedos and Troy, long Phrigia sixt,
Sestos, Abidos, Adrianopole vext;
Colchis, falne Thebes, Hellespont, and more,
Constantinople, earths best soveraigne glore:
The Euxine sea, and Pompeys pillar prest,
In Peru then, Ile take my Winters rest.