AIA TRAVELS TO DISCOV EE 
you, friend Strates, faid I, I never was at Scio in my life, 
and, therefore, could not fee it.’ Nor at Stanchio ?’—Yes, 
Ihave been at Stanchio, and have feen the large plane- 
tree there. I believe it may be about eighteeen or twenty 
feet in circumference.” Galen and Hippocrates lived, 
adds he, there together, 2000 years before our Saviour: Did 
you ever hear that ?’—“ I have read, faid I, Strates, that, a- 
bout 500 years before Chrift, Hippocrates did live there ; but 
Galen was not born till 200 years after Chrift. I do not re- 
collec if he was ever at Stanchio; but, furely, never lived 
there with Hippocrates. 
STRATES was in the middle of a declaration, that thofe 
were all falfehoods of Latins and Papifts; and we were af- 
cending, compofedly enough, through a narrow, rocky road, 
thick-covered with high trees and bufhes, when, juft before 
our entrance into the village of Dara, a gun was fired, and 
the ball diftin@tly heard pafling through the leaves among 
the branches. This occafioned a great alarm to our difpu- 
tant, who immediately fuppofed that Guebra Mehedin, and 
all his robbers, were there exprefsly waiting for us; nor 
was he the only perfon that felt uneafily. Netcho, myfelf, 
and the generality of his officers, thought this was more 
than probable; we all therefore difmounted, loaded our 
fire-arms, halted till all our ftvagglers came up, and con- 
fulted what we were to do. 
Strates, though tired and naked, found it was better to 
go back under his carpet, and, if poffible, overtake Ayto 
Adigo, than take poficeflion of his new cloaths from Negadé 
Ras Mahomet, with the rifk of meeting Guebra Mehe- 
din there. In vain I remonftrated to him, that he, of all 
I } others, 
