_ 420 _ desert and entered the outskirts of the city of Aleppo which was surrounded by walls and inhabited by Moors under the rule of the Turk. Here Antonio Tenrreiro left the caravan which passed on asfaras the city of Damascus. He himself went to the house of a wealthy Venetian merchant who had settled there. The local people had a high regard for him and called him Micer Andre. Antonio Tenrreiro carried letters for him from Cristovao de Mendonca in order that he might give him help for his journey. However the Venetian was not to be found as he was in Constantinople having been called there by the Turk. As it was winter and there was so much snow that no one was travelling Antonio Tenrreiro tarried there fifty days at the end of which he joined a caravan which was going to the city of Tripoli in Syria in the territory of the Turk. From there he embarked for the island of Cyprus; after which he passed through great storms on his way to Italy, where he took the road overland to Portugal. He arrived there safely and gave the King the letters he was carrying. He caused great astonishment, as he was the first Portuguese to have made that Journey by land and the first man to do it alone, with only one guide. He showed
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