an English traveller, colonist and poet. His verse was praised by Dryden and Pope; Milton was somewhat indebted to Sandys's Hymn to my Redeemer in his Ode on the Passion. Sandys' travel narrative appeared as The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books (1615). This remained a standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean, twice mentioned, for instance, by the English naval chaplain Henry Teonge in his diary of a voyage in 1675.
