To repair his Defects, he stood for the Coast of _Calabria_, but hearing there was six or seven Galleys at _Messina,_ he departed thence for _Malta;_ but the Wind coming fair, he kept his course along the Coast of the Kingdom of _Sicilia_, by _Sardinia_ and _Corsica_, till he came to the Road of _Antibo_ in _Peamon,_ where he set _Smith_ on shoar with five Hundred Chicqueens, and a little Box God sent him worth near as much more. Here he left this Noble _Britain_, and embarked himself for _Legorn,_ being glad to have such opportunity and means to better his Experience by the view of _Italy;_ and having passed _Tuskany,_ and the Country of _Siena,_ where he found his dear Friends, the two Honourable Brethren, the Lord _Willoughby,_ and his Brother cruelly wounded, in a desperate fray, yet to their exceeding great Honour. Then to _Viterbo_ and many other Cities he came to _Rome,_ from where it was his chance to see Pope Clement the VIII. with many Cardinals, creep up the Holy Stairs, {MN} which they say, are those our Savior Christ went up to _Pontius Pilate,_ where blood, falling from his Head, being pricked with his Crown of Thorns, the drops are marked with Nails of Steel, upon them none dare go but in that manner, saying so many _Ave-Maries_ and _Pater-Nosters,_ as is their Devotion, and to kiss the Nails of Steel: But on each side, is a pair of such like Stairs, upon which you may go, stand, or kneel, but divided from the Holy Stairs by two Walls: Right against them is a Chappel, where hangs a great Silver Lamp, which burneth continually; yet they say, the Oil neither increaseth nor diminisheth. A little distant is the ancient Church of Saint _John de Lateran,_ where he saw him say Mass, which commonly he doth upon some Friday once a Month. Having saluted Father _Parsons,_ that famous _English_ Jesuit, and satisfied himself with the Rarities of _Rome,_ he went down the River of _Tiber_ to _Civita Vechia,_ where he embarked himself, to satisfie his Eye with the fair City of _Naples,_ and her Kingdoms Nobility; returning by _Capua, Rome_ and _Siena,_ he passed by that admired City of _Florence,_ the Cities and Countreys of _Bolonia, Ferrara, Mantua, Padua_ and _Venice,_ whose Gulf he passed from _Malamoco_ and the _Adriatic_ Sea for _Ragouza,_ spending some time to see that barren, broken Coast of _Albania_ and _Dalmatia,_ to _Capo de Istria,_ Travelling the main of poor _Sclavonia_ by _Lubbiano,_ till he came to _Grates_ in _Styria,_ the Seat of _Ferdinando,_ Arch-duke of _Austria,_ now Emperour of _Almania:_ where he met an _English_ Man, and an _Irish_ Jesuit, who acquainted him with many brave Gentlemen of good Quality, especially with the Lord _Ebersbaught,_ with whom, trying such Conclusions, as he projected to undertake, preferred him to Baron _Kisell,_ General of the Artillery, and he to a worthy Colonel, the Earl of _Meldritch,_ with whom, going to _Vienna_ in _Austria,_ under whose