and then conducted him out of the
town. That night he took up his lodgings in the woods, and, by the help
of his tinder-box, made a large fire all round him, to secure himself
from any visits from the wild beasts, then broiled a piece of flesh,
drank a dram, and rested very quietly till morning, it being the middle
of summer.

The whole country here is wild, full of large woods and uninhabited
deserts, the towns and villages lying very thin. In the morning, finding
his way out of the woods, he espied a lonely hut, to which he made up,
and making signs of hunger and thirst, they gave him some rusk bread and
cabereta, or goat's flesh, to eat, and some goat's milk to drink, which
is the usual fare amongst those people, who are most of them Lutherans by
religion, and lead very sober lives; of some of them he got small bits of
money, which they call campekes, and are of silver, something larger than
a barley-corn, being of a penny value; he likewise frequently got drams
of excellent brandy amongst them, and his shoes being worn-out by
travelling, they gave him a pair of good wooden ones, which sat very
awkwardly on his English feet.

After six or seven days' travel through this wild country he came to
Riga, a large town and famous sea-port: here he met with many English
merchants and commanders of vessels, who were very kind to him; he
tarried two days in Riga, to rest and refresh himself: during which the
English merchants and commanders provided lodgings and other
accommodations for him, collecting upwards of fifty shillings for him.
Having expressed his utmost gratitude towards his good benefactors, he
again pursued his journey, subsisting himself sometimes on the charity of
the inhabitants of the country, and at other times milking the cows upon
the mountains or in the woods. The next place of note he arrived at was
the city of Dantzic, in the kingdom of Poland: here he found a great
number of English merchants who traded to Exeter, and Bristol, and had
many correspondents living in those places, several of whom Mr. Carew
being acquainted with, he gave a particular account of.

Having been entertained here very hospitably for several days, he set out
again, having first received some handsome presents from the English
merchants. From Dantzic he got a passage on board an English brigantine
bound for Copenhagen, but through stress of weather was obliged to put
into Elson Cape, where he went on shore, and travelled b