precious minister, being almost amazed to hear a man just dying, talk as if he had been with Jesus and in the immediate presence of God. Oh, the smiles that were then in his face, and the unspeakable joy that was in his heart! One might have read grace and glory in such a man's countenance. Oh, the praise, the triumphant praise, that he put up! And every one must speak praise about him, or else they did make some jar in his harmony.

"And now his desires soon were to be satisfied; he saw death coming apace to do his office; his jaws were loosened. more and more, and quivered greatly; his hands and feet were as cold as clay, and a cold sweat was upon him. But, oh! how glad was he when he felt his spirit just a-going! Never was death more welcome to any mortal, I think. Though the pangs of death were strong, yet that far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory made him endure those bitter pains with much patience and courage. In the extremity of his pains, he desired his eldest brother to lay him a little lower, and to take away one pillow from him, that he might die with more ease. His brother replied that he durst not for the world do any thing that might hasten his death a moment. Then he was well satisfied, and did sweetly resign himself up wholly to God's disposal. And after a few minutes, with a sudden motion gathering up all his strength, he gave himself a little turn on one side, and in the twinkling of an eye departed to the Lord, sleeping in Jesus.

"He died June 1657, aged 23-4, and was buried in Kelshall Church, in Hertfordshire."

GEORGE SANDYS.*

The reader may possibly recal the name of George Sandys

* Born at Bishop's Thorpe, Yorkshire, 1577; died at Bexley, Kent, 1643. We give those authors who died during this period. Some of their works bear a much earlier date.

as one of the two pupils of Richard Hooker, who paid their old friend a pilgrimage of affection at his joyless parsonage of Drayton Beauchamp; and they will remember the name of his father as the great Elizabethan Archbishop of York, from whose fluent and lively sermons we have given some specimens. As Fuller says, "He proved a most accomplished gentleman and an observant traveller, who went as far as the sepulchre at Jerusalem, and hath spared other men's pains in going thither, by bringing the Holy Land home to them: so lively in his descriptions thereof, with his passage thither and return thence. He lived to be a very aged man, whom I saw in the Savoy, anno 1641, having a youthful soul in a decayed body; and I believe he died soon after."

It was in the year 1610 that this accomplished scholar and poet set out on his travels; and a few paragraphs from his tour in the Holy Land may interest those who have performed the journey themselves, or who are familiar with the narratives of recent travellers.

Pilgrims, Camels, and Arabs.

"Upon the 4th of March we departed from Cairo in the habits of pilgrims: four of us English, consorted with three Italians; of whom one was a priest, and another a physician. For ourselves, we hired three camels with their keepers; two to carry us, and the third for our provision. We also hired a Copt for half-a-dollar a-day, to be our interpreter, and to attend on us. Our provision for so long a voyage we bore along with us-viz., biscuit, rice, raisins, figs, dates, almonds, olives, oil, sherbets, &c.; buying pewter, brass, and such-like implements, as if to set up housekeeping. Our water we carried in goatskins. We rid in shallow cradles (which we bought also), two on a camel, arboured above, and covered with linen, to us exceeding uneasy, not so to the people of these countries, who

sit cross-legged with a natural facility, Amongst us were divers Jewish women, in the extremity of their age, undertaking so wearisome a journey only to die at Jerusalem; bearing along with them the bones of their parents, husbands, children, and kinsfolk, as they do from all other parts, when they can conveniently. The merchants brought with them many negroes, not the worst of their merchandise. These they buy of their parents, some thirty days' journey above [Cairo], and on the west side of the river. As the wealth of others consists in the multitudes of cattle, so theirs in the multitude of their children, whom they part from with as little passion, never after to be seen or heard of, regarding more the price than condition of their slavery.

"The whole caravan being now assembled, consists of a thousand horses, mules, and asses, and of five hundred camels. These are the ships of Arabia; their seas are the desert: a creature created for burden. Six hundredweight is his ordinary load; yet will he carry a thousand. When in lading or unlading he lies on his belly, and will rise (as it is said) when laden proportionably to his strength, nor suffers more to be laid on him. Four days together he will travel without water; for a necessity, fourteen.' When in a journey they cram them with barley dough. Their pace slow, and intolerable hard, being withal unsure of foot, where never so little slippery or uneven. They are not made to amend their paces, when weary, with blows; but are encouraged by songs, and the going before of their keepers. About their necks they hang certain charms included in leather, and writ by their dervishes, to defend them from mischances, and the poison of ill

eyes.

"Having with two days' rest refreshed them, now to begin the worst part of their journey, on the tenth of March we entered the main deserts, a part of Arabia Petræa, a barren and desolate country, bearing neither grass nor trees, save only

here and there a few palms, which will not forsake these forsaken places. That little that grows on the earth is wild hyssop, whereupon they do pasture their camels—a creature content with little-whose milk and flesh is their principal sustenance. They have no water that is sweet, all being a mere wilderness of sand, the winds having raised, high mountains, which lie in drifts, according to the quarters from whence they blow. About midnight (the soldiers being in the head of the caravan), these Arabs assailed our rear. The clamour was great, and the passengers, together with their leaders, fled from their camels. I and my companion, imagining the noise to be only an encouragement to one another, were left alone, yet preserved from violence. They carried away with them divers mules and asses, laden with drugs, and abandoned by their owners, not daring to stay too long, nor cumber themselves with too much luggage, for fear of the soldiers. These are descended of Ishmael, called also Saracens, from 'Sahara,' which signifieth a desert, and 'saken,' to inhabit. They dwell in tents, which they remove like walking cities, for opportunity of prey and benefit of pasturage. They acknowledge no sovereign not worth the conquering, nor can they be conquered: retiring to places impassable for armies, by reason of the rolling sands and penury of all things: a nation from the beginning unmixed with others; boasting of their nobility, and at this day hating all mechanical sciences. They hang about the skirts of the habitable countries, and, having robbed, retire with a marvellous celerity. Those that are not detected persons frequent the neighbouring villages for provision, and traffic without molestation: they not daring to entreat them evilly. They are of mean stature, raw-boned, tawny, having feminine voices of a swift and noiseless pace; behind you, ere aware of them. Their religion is Mohammedanism, glorying in that that the impostor was their countryman: their language extending as far as that religion extendeth. They ride on swift horses,

not misshapen, though lean, and patient of labour. They feed them twice a-day with the milk of camels; nor are they esteemed of if not of sufficient speed to overtake an ostrich. Of these there are store in the deserts. They keep in flocks, and oft affright the stranger passenger with their fearful screeches, appearing afar off like a troop of horsemen. Their bodies are too heavy to be supported with their wings, which, useless for flight, do serve them only to run the more speedily. They are the simplest of fowls, and symbols of folly. What they find they swallow, though without delight, even stones and iron. When they have laid their eggs, not less great than the bullet of a culverin (whereof there are great numbers to be sold in Cairo), they leave them, and, unmindful where, sit on those they next meet with. The Arabs catch the young ones, running apace as soon as disclosed, and, when fatted, do eat them so do they some part of the old, and sell their skins with the feathers upon them. They ride also on dromedaries, like in shape but less than a camel, of a jumping gait and incredible speed. They will carry a man (yet unfit for burden) a hundred miles a-day; living without water, and with little food satisfied. If one of these Arabians undertakes your conduct, he will perform it faithfully; neither will any of the nation molest you. They will lead you by unknown nearer ways, and further in four days than you can travel by caravan in fourteen."

The Holy Sepulchre.

"Just in the midst stands the glorified sepulchre, a hundred and eight feet distant from Mount Calvary; the natural rock surmounting the sole of the temple abated by art, and hewn into the form of a chapel. In the midst of the floor there is a stone about a foot high and a foot and a half square, whereon they say that the angel sate, who told the two Marys that our