In 1612, tho year following the publication of the Crudities, Coryat departed on a more extended journey : his object bciog to visit the Holy Land, and walk from there to the East ladies, leaving the actual limits of his travels to be determined by circumstances.
Having made a brief stay in Constantinople, he visited various parts of Greece and went to explore the vestiges of Troy, with which he was much delighted. He then went to Jerusalem, and among others of the sacred localities visited all he could discover of the Seven Churches. Thence he started to Aleppo, and so through Persia to Agra, where was the Mogul's court, spending, he says, in his "journey betwixt Jerusalem and the Mogul's court fifteen months and odd days, all of which way I traversed afoot . . . the total distance being 2700 English miles," and in ten months of this journey he only expended "betwixt Aleppo and the Mogul's court but three pounds sterling, yet fared reasonable well every way." Coryat had always a considerable apti tude for acquiring languages, and in this journey he had learnt to use colloquially Italian, Arabic, Turkish, and Persian, his attainmeflts in which no doubt contributed to his easy and economic progress. From Agra he sent to his friends in London some brief notices of what he had scen on his way, with a description of the Mogul's court, which were published, with a portrait prefixed, representing him riding on an elephant.
At Agra he stayed some little while, being taken much notice of by the Mogul and by Sir Thomas Rowe, the English ambassador there. Of his future proceedings all that is known is told in the voyage of the Rev. Thomas Terry, chaplain to the ambassador. Terry says that Coryat, laving stayed long enough to acquire "a great mastery iu the Indoatan, or more vulgar language," resolved to continue his journey, he having now so extended his plan as to propose to prolong his wanderings for at least ten years, in which time he hoped to be able to explore " Tartaria in the vast plains thereof, with as much as he could of China, and those other large places and pro vinces interposed betwixt East India and China," after which he intended not only to search for Preater John in Ethiopia, but to "cast his eyes upon many other places." But his journeyings were nearly ended. He set out for Surat, though ill before starting, and full of fear that he should die on the road. He lived to reach Surat, 300 miles distant, but died there of a dysentery a few days after his arrival, December 1617. Count made full cotes during this jouruey, but they were•all lost. The 'Crudities' has become a very rare volume, and fetches a high price at the book-sales.