Abasines, of Mount Moriah, 220;
of Mount Sinai, 222;
of Fez, 325.
Abdeminoples, Mahomet sold to, 130.
Abydos, fortress on the Hellespont (Asia Minor) opposite Sestos, 112.
Achaia, district of Greece, situation of, 107, 108;
chief cities of, 108.
Adriatic Coast, cities and sea-port towns on, 33.
Adriatic Sea, marriage of the Doge and the, 36.
Ægean Sea, 98.
Æneas Silvius, Cosmographical Treatise of Europe by, 61.
Æneid, Virgil’s, quotation from, 108, 109.
Agamemnon at the siege of Troy, 98.
Ahetzo, M. Chatteline at, 326, 327.
Aiton, young, friend of Lithgow, 9.
Alcade, of Malaga, 392, 395;
and the Inquisition, 399.
Alcino, gardens of, 53.
Alcoran, or Koran, Mohammedan scriptures, 132, 135.
Aleppo, commerce of, 147;
Venetian consul at, 177;
Pasha of, 180;
comments upon, 181.
Algiers, captured by Barbarossa (A.D. 1515), 317;
pirates of, 317;
slaves of, 317, 318;
comments upon, 316–319.
Allathya, the, of London, 154.
Allen, John, a Scotchman, 83.
Allen, Robert, panegyric verses of, xxvii.
Ambassador, Spanish, in London, false promises of the, 419.
Ancona, city of, 32.
Androsians, Themistocles and the, 98.
Angusa, comments upon, 85.
Antioch, ancient capital of the Greek kings of Syria, 176;
Christians at, 176.
Antiochus the Great, founder of Antioch, 176.
Antonio, Signior Marco, Venetian consul at Cairo, 267.
Apollo, temple of, at Delos, 85.
Arabia, kings of, 203;
boundaries and inhabitants of, 262.
Arabia Felix, 188.
Arabia Petrœa, 188.
Arabs, wandering, travellers attacked by, 206, 231, 258.
Aragon, Peter of, and the Sicilian vespers, 346;
kingdom of, 384.
Archimedes, 344.
Archipelago, Grecian, islands of the, 84 ff., 98.
Arethusa, fountain of, at Syracuse, 344.
Aristotle, death of, 103.
Armada, English, and the Moors, news of the, 406.
Armenians, caravan of, 182.
Armies, Turkish, 150.
Arran, island of, description of, 428.
Arthur, James, Scottish gentleman, 28, 32.
Asia Minor, comments upon, 154, 155.
Asisi, St. Francis of, 21.
Aston, Sir Walter, English ambassador to Madrid (1621), and the governor of Malaga,
417;
and the sufferings of Lithgow, 424.
Athens, 66–68.
Athos, Mount, Greek reverence for, 115.
Atodala, converted Jew, and Mahomet, 131.
Aughmuty, Mr. James, 15.
Authors, famous classical, 15.
Azamglians, compared to the Pretorian army, 149.
Babylon, journey from Aleppo to, 177.
Badgello, captain of the sergeants at Pestoia, knavery of, and Lithgow, 308, 309.
Bailey, William, native of Clydesdale, 369.
Bajazet II. and the Jews, 54.
Baldwin, King, tomb of, at Jerusalem, 238.
Balsam, garden of, at Cairo, 274.
Barbarossa and the Spaniards, 51.
Barbary, kingdom of, 287;
Turkish policy in (A.D. 1615), 318;
and the provinces betwixt Egypt and Gibraltar, 319;
women of, 320.
Basan, Og, king of, 204.
Beauclair, M., French consul at Cairo, and Lithgow, 268.
Beershacke (Birejeck), in Mesopotamia, 179.
Beglerbeg, or Bassa (Pasha), Turkish governor of Greece, 66;
Sofia, residence of Grecian, 66;
rules concerning the, 66;
of Damascus, 186.
Beglerbegs, Bassas (Pashas), number of, 150.
Beglerbergship, the, of Barbary, 331.
Berne, comments upon, 383.
Bethany, tomb of Lazarus at, 251.
Bethlehem, Franciscan monastery at, 246;
of Judea, 248.
Biscay, province of Spain, 383.
Bishops’ College of Malaga, priest of the, 407.
Bithynia, division of Asia Minor, 154.
Black Sea, 125.
Boniface III., Pope, 133, 134.
Books and observations, Lithgow’s, translated into Spanish, 407.
Bothwell, Earl of, at Naples, 294.
Bouillon, Godfrey de, tomb of, at Jerusalem, 238.
Boyde, Alexander, commendation of Lithgow’s history by, xxx.
Breda, ‘A True and Experimentall Discourse upon the beginning Proceeding and Victorious Event of this last Siege of,’ by William Lithgow. London, 1637, xii.
Bridge, Jacob’s, across the Jordan, 190.
Brioni, islands of, 41.
Brockesse, Master, English factor at Sidon, 199.
Bruce, David, of Clackmannan, 304.
Bryson, Robert, printer, Edinburgh, xii.
Buda, 361;
recovered by Soliman II., 104;
beglerbeg of, 362.
Button, Sir Thomas, and the sufferings of Lithgow, 424;
letter from, to Sir Thomas Coventry, 425, 426.
Byzantium, see Constantinople.
Cæsarea Philippi, ruins of, 193.
Caffar, tribute, exacted by Arabs from Christians in Palestine, 201.
Cairo, commerce of, 147;
comments upon, 266–273;
consuls at, 267;
beglerbeg of, 268;
description of, 269 ff.;
commerce of, 271;
cosmopolitanism of, 271;
caves of mummies at, 274.
Caithness, Lord George, Earl of, 433;
lines to, 434–436.
Calabria, 309;
bandits in, 310;
peasant women of, 311;
Albanians fled to, 311.
Caligula, Caius, founder of Gallipoli, 114.
Caliph, see Mufti.
Calistha, birthplace of Calimachus, 85.
Calvary, Mount, beauty of, 237.
Camels, nature of, and dromedaries, 263.
Cana of Galilee, 193.
Canaan, 190, 191;
provinces and fertility of, 192.
Candiots, or Cretans, character of, 73, 80, 81.
Canea, 73;
a Frenchman’s sad plight in the Venetian galleys at, 74.
Canes, wayside inns, 182.
Carabusa, Cretan fortress, 72.
Carmoesalo, Italian sailing vessel, 40.
Carnaro, Gulf of, 42.
Carre, Sir William, 15.
Carse of Gowrie, 431.
Carthage, rivalry between Rome and, 313;
subject to the Turks, 314.
Castriot, Captain George (Scanderbeg), 51.
Cataro, Gulf of, 49.
Cecrops, King, Athens supposed to be founded by, 67.
Cephalonia, island of, comments upon, 56, 57;
former names of, 56, 57;
situation and products of, 57;
subject to Venice, 57.
Champions, Greek, 65.
Charles V. and the Knights of St. John, 292.
Chatteline, M., in Algiers, 320.
Chelfaines, country of the, supposed earthly paradise, 175, 179.
Cheops, and the Pyramids, 276.
Chichester, Lord, 372.
Christian kings of Jerusalem, 217.
Churchmen, Turkish, 139.
Clyde, source of the, 430.
Clydesdale, the paradise of Scotland, 430.
Coffee drinking in Constantinople, 136.
Constantine the Great, founder of Constantinople, 118, 119, 120.
Constantinople, Christian slaves fled from, 113;
splendour of, 116;
comments upon, 118–152;
taken by the Turks under Mohammed II., 119, 120;
church of St. Sophia at, 121, 124;
hippodrome at, 121;
slave market, 122;
fires at, 122;
subject to pestilence and earthquake, 124;
commerce of, 147.
Copts, Egyptian Christians, 257, 272;
religion of, 273.
Coral, best, found in Sicily, 338.
Cordova, Don Francesco di, captain of Malaga, 392;
and the Inquisition, 399.
Corfu, island of, comments upon, 52–55;
inhabitants and governors of, 53;
fortresses of, 53;
former names of, 54;
products of, 54.
Cosmographical Treatise of Europe by Æneas Silvius, 61.
Coventry, Sir Thomas, 424.
Cracow, Scots merchants at, 367.
Crete (Candia), Turkish island in the Mediterranean, comments upon, 70–83;
its products, rivers, and ancient cities, 71;
harvest time in, 81.
Croatia, comments upon, 42, 43.
Crocodile of the Nile, account of the killing of by a Venetian merchant, 277.
Crœsus, King, 155.
Crub (crib), description of Christ’s, at Bethlehem, 246.
Currants, great trade in, with England, 58.
Cursola, island of, 49.
Customs, Moorish, 324.
Cyclades and Sporades, see Archipelago.
Cypress trees of Mount Ida, 78.
Cyprus, comments upon, 163–169;
inhabitants of, 163, 165;
products of, 164;
minerals found in, 165;
climate, 165;
recolonisation of, 165;
history of, 166;
conquered by the Turks, 167.
Cyrene, comments upon, 287–289.
Dacia, provinces of, 51.
Dalmatia, comments upon, 44, 45;
provinces of, 45.
Damascus, Georgians’ paradise, 174;
pasha, or beglerbeg of, 181, 186;
comments upon, 182–189;
capital of Syria, 184;
Turkish belief concerning, 184, 185;
antiquity of, 185.
Danser, Captain, Flemish pirate, and the Moors, 334, 335.
Danzig, 369.
David, King, ruins of the palace of, 249.
Dead Sea, 226, 227, 228;
apple, 228.
Dedalus, labyrinth of, in Crete, 78.
Demetrius, King, birthplace of, 48.
Desert, comments upon the, 259–264;
Turkish castles in the, 258 ff.;
towns, 261.
Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, 310.
Doctor, Jewish, at Cairo, 268.
Dominicans in Jerusalem, 241.
Don John of Austria and the battle of Lepanto, 59;
death of, 60.
Douglas, Matthew, at Messina, 348.
Douglas, William, made a knight of Malta, 291;
remains at Malta, 337.
Drinks, Turkish, 136.
Dromedary, 263.
Dumbarton Castle compared to the fortress of Carabusa in Crete, 72.
Duncansbay Head, 436.
Dungeon, Lithgow’s, at Malaga, 396, 398, 405.
Eden, village of, on Mount Lebanon, 173;
Nestorians’ paradise, 173;
Garden of, 173, 174.
Egypt, fruitfulness of, 273;
comments upon, 275–283;
kings of, 282, 283;
a Turkish province, 283;
revenues of, 284.
Elizeus, Elisha, fountain of, 232.
Emperors, Roman and Grecian, in the east and west, summary of, 142, 143.
Ephesus, decayed, 156;
temple of Diana at, 156.
Epirus, comments upon, 51, 52;
birthplace of King Pyrrhus, 51;
rivers of, 52;
Laerto, chief town of, 52.
Epistle Dedicatory, the, to Charles I., xvii.
Escurial, palace of, description of, 386;
built by Philip II., 387.
Etna, Mount, 342, 343;
and mythology, 344.
Factors, English, at Malaga, 417.
Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, A.D. 1616, 42.
Ferdinand, Duke, of Florence, and the invasion of Scios, 93, 94;
attempted conquest of Cyprus by, 167;
sea-fight between, and Turks, 168.
Fez, comments upon, 321, 325;
city of, compared to Granada, 321;
public buildings of, 322;
dress of the people of, 322;
seats of justice at, 323;
Mohammedan colleges at, 323;
divisions of, 323;
mosques of, 323, 324.
Fez, Modell of the Great City of, 322.
Fleet, English, at Malaga, 390, 391;
Lithgow and, 391;
intentions of the, 393.
Florence, patrimony of the Duke of, 22.
Flying fish, 288.
Fountains, curious, in Crete, 79.
France, comments upon, 297–301, 381, 382.
Franciscans in Jerusalem, 241.
French and Spaniards, comparison between, 346.
Frenchmen, four, death of, 287.
Friars of Candia, 83.
Frigate, Moorish (slaver), 341.
Galetto, Turkish garrison at, 314.
Galilee, 190.
Galleys, French, at Puteoli, 352, 353;
Neapolitan, 349.
Gallipoli, castles of, 113;
seaport of Turkey, 114.
Galloway, commodities of, 428.
Geneva, Lake, 307.
Germans, three, death of, in the desert, 260, 261;
three, death of, at Cairo, 267;
money left by, 267, 277.
Germany, comments upon, 305.
Gib, George, and the French galleys, 353.
Glover, Sir Thomas, and the death of the English consul at Patras, 60;
British ambassador to Constantinople, 116;
and the Duke of Moldavia, 126;
good deeds of, 126;
short account of, 127;
his kindness to Lithgow, 153;
at Constantinople, 365.
Goatfell, in Arran, 428.
Goodwill, the, of Harwich, 417.
Gradisca, town in Austria, 360.
Graham, Mr. George, and St. Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, 437.
Graham, Simeon, Lithgow’s cousin, 355, 360.
Grahame, Alison, mother of William Lithgow, ix.
Granada, and the Moors, 389;
and Ferdinand and Isabella, 390;
and Charles V., 390;
Spanish cavalier of, and his Flemish servant at Malaga, 416.
Grand Cairo, see Cairo.
Grandison, Lord, 372.
Great Turk, beglerbegs of, in Africa, 332.
Greece, comments upon, 60–69;
despoiled by the Turks, 65;
government of, 66;
vicissitudes of, 104, 105.
Greek Church, patriarchs in the, 105.
Greeks, first converted Christians of the Gentiles, 105;
vagabond, 106.
Grey Friars of Jerusalem, 209.
Grotto di Cane, Lithgow in the, 353.
Hamilton, Marquis of, and Lithgow, 427.
Hannay, Patrick, panegyric verses of, xxv.
Hannibal’s war with Rome, 46.
Hanspauch (Anspach), Marquesse of, and the death of the German pilgrims, 305.
Hargrave, Thomas, English soldier in Canea, 75, 82.
Harvests, Egyptian, 266.
Hawkins, Sir Richard, and the governor of Malaga, 406;
with his squadron at Malaga, 417;
and Lithgow, 418.
Hay, Monsieur, of Smithfield, friend of Lithgow, 9.
Hazier, a Turkish slave, 397, 398, 406;
charity of, 413.
Hebrides, 438.
Helen, Saint, and the Holy Sepulchre, 236;
and the cross, 238.
Hellespont, derivation of, 115.
Hepburn, Captain George, at Naples, 294.
Hephestia, birthplace of Vulcan, 87.
Heraclius and Mahomet, 135.
Heragenes, or Æthiopian negroes, 326.
Hercules, temple of, in Malta, 336.
Hexamite, famous Grecian wall, 61.
Hills, Jerusalem’s four, 213.
History of Crete, 71.
Hoggeis, holy men, 135.
Holy Land, 192;
seaports of the, 205.
Holy Sepulchre, at Jerusalem, 235;
exaction of tribute from pilgrims to the, 235;
description of, 236;
decorations of the chapel, 237;
form of the quire, 236, 237;
religious families of the church of the, 239;
ceremonies in connection with, 240;
Knights of the Holy Grave, 242.
Homer, sepulchre of, in Scios, 91.
Hungarians, 362;
character of, 363.
Hungary, fight between Turks and Christians in, 46;
comments upon, 361–365;
special towns of, 361;
beglerbegships of, 362;
fertility of, 362, 363.
Huns, Hungarians descendants of, 362.
Huttonhall, young, friend of Lithgow, 9.
Idumea (Edom), comments upon, 257.
Incubation in Tunis (A.D. 1616), 334.
India, nearer passage to, Eastern monarchs and the, 263.
Inquisition, Spanish, 407 ff.;
condemnation to death by the, 413.
Inquisitor of Malaga, Lithgow and the, 407, 408, 409;
fury of the, 410.
Ireland, comments upon, 372–381;
provinces of, 373;
people of, 374;
conditions in (1620), 374;
religion in, 375;
gentry of, 375;
abuses in, 376;
husbandry in (1620), 377.
Ischia, island of, 350.
Israel, burial place of the kings and queens of, 244.
Istria, comments upon, 40, 41;
margraviate of Austria, 360.
Istrians, antiquity of the, 41.