Category: Travel Writing

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08

I departed from London in the Tiger on Shrove-Tuesday, 1583, in company with Mr John Newberry, Mr Ralph Fitch, and six or seven other honest merchants, and arrived at Tripoli in Syria on the next ensuing 1st of May. On our arrival, we went a _Maying_ on the Island of St George...