Avontuurlĳke reys-togten van Johan Smith, in verscheyde gedeelten des werelds, begonnen in het jaar 1593 ... (1706) - Page 12

1593
His way of life there.

that my primary food was the game which the thicket offered me, rather than anything else, and what I further lacked was brought to me by my servant. The entire countryside thereabouts wondered at such a hermit. My friends persuaded Mr. Theodorus Polalogus, a rider under Henry, Earl of Lincoln, an excellent horseman, and at the same time a high-minded Italian nobleman, to make himself familiar with me in my forest dwelling and to dissuade me from that way of life. Through his talkativeness and good reasons, and as a fellow practitioner in horsemanship, he brought me so far that I went with him and stayed with him at Tattershall original: "Tattersall". These amusements were

Returns again to the Netherlands.

not of long duration for me, since they could not satisfy me, so that I departed from there again and left for the Netherlands.

CHAPTER II.

The villainy of 4 French vagabonds, Smith's

revenge upon one: Smith is thrown overboard,

but rescued by Captain la Roche of St. Malo,

with whom he makes a voyage to Egypt

and Scandrona, and returns to the

Adriatic Sea.

Is eager to fight against the Turks.

Now that France and the Netherlands had taught me to ride a horse and use weapons, as far as the first beginnings in that school of exercise of war could bring me in my tender years, I was eager to see the world further and to seek my fortune against the Turks, both deploring