40 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1661 two letters by a trusty ffriend, one dated three dayes befor the tyme

Passages from the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries : A.D. 1635-A.D. 1699"

40 DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON. [1661

two letters by a trusty ffriend, one dated three dayes befor the tyme I had
promised to returne, giveing him notice, that, upon my comeing to Thorun,
I was fallen into a heavy sicknesse, being a hott feaver, so that I could not
be able to come at the appointed tyme, promising how soone I were re-
covered to make all possible hast ; the letter not writt by myself, but sub-
scrived ; the other letter, dated a fortnight thereafter, from the same place,
infonning his excellency that the violence of sickness was relented, but that
I was taken with a sort of a quotiduan feaver, and want of appetite, which
had weakened me, so that I was out of hopes of being able to travel in
hast, makeing a great regrait, that, by this misfortune, 1 had lost the hon-
our which I thought to have had to serve his Imperial! Majesty, and such
expressions more.
iiy 25. Haveing taken my leave of ffrlends, I crossed the river Vistula, and
novo. jQ^gg^ 'y^ ^jjg Prague all night ; and the next morning after breakfast, and a
iiy 26 merry cup with the ffriends who had convoyed us, wee began our jorney.
Colonell Crawfuird, being a prisoner to the Colonell Lord Henry Gordon,
was not only maintained by him at a plentifull table in Varso, but dismissed
ransome free, and gave him a pass for a capitaiue of horse. Captain Pawl
Menezes had a pass for a capitaine of foot. The colonell had a servant, and
I fowre, so that wee were in company but eight persons, I acting the
chiefFest by the way.

The first night wee lodged in a village fyve miles from Varso ; and the

iiy 27. next day afternoone came to Vengrova, which is twelve miles from Varso,

where wee lodged and stayed the next day, exspecting Andrew Burnet and

WilUam Guild, who had promised to go with me.

\\j 29. Wee went from hence, and, crossing the river Bug at a ruined towne

called Ostrow, wee came to Tikoczino, where is a strong castle by the river

Narew. Here is also a Jewish sinagogue, and very many Jewes. From

thence, wee went down by the river syde, and crossing the said river at

Wizna, wee lodged there. Wee crossed thereafter the river Leek, where

the Polls and Tartars beat the Sweds and Brandeburgers, and tooke Duke

Bogoslaw Radziwill prisoner ; am I comeing to Raggrod, wee dined there ;

then passing by Augustowa, Eokalarzova, and PhiUppova, where the same

Polls and Tartars were, eight dayes thereafter, beat by the Sweds and

■ Brandeburgers, and Duk Radzivill recovered. This was done, anno Domini

1656, in September.

Being come to Znin, wee lodged there all night, and were merry with