ABSTRACT
During the three years between his return from the second journey and his embarking on a third one, in 1618 Lithgow published, at his own expense and perhaps with the idea of attracting À nancial backing for other ventures, the poem ‘The Pilgrimes Farewell, to his Native Countrey of Scotland’ (see above, p. 21). Among the grandees hailed in it is John Graham, fourth Earl of Montrose (father of the great James, À fth Earl and À rst Marquess), and the writer asks him to continue the favour extended by his father and grandfather. Clearly, the furor vagandi was unstilled in Lithgow, as he explains in the prologue to his account of this third journey:
By 1619 he reÁ ected that he had never visited Ireland and the western half of the Iberian peninsula, western Spain and Portugal, but this was only to be the prologue to the greater design of more extensive travel in Africa, if possible, as far as the dominions of Prester John in Ethiopia.
