Eastern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 2 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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Vpon Assumption euen our clearke arriued at the court of Sartach.
And on
the morrow after, the Nestorian Priestes were adorned with our vestments in
the presence of the said Sartach. Then wee our selues were conducted vnto
another hoste, who was appointed to prouide vs houseroome, victualles, and
horses. But because wee had not ought to bestowe vpon him, hee did all
things vntowardly for vs. [Sidenote: They trauell fiue weekes by the banke
of Etilia.] Then wee rode on forwards with Baatu, descending along by the
banks of Etilia, for the space of fiue weekes together: Sometimes mine
associate was so extremelie hungrie, that hee would tell mee in a manner
weeping, that it fared with him as though hee had neuer eaten any thing in
all his life before. There is a faire or market following the court of
Baatu at all times: but it was so farre distant from vs that we could not
haue recourse thereunto. For wee were constrained to walke on foote for
want of horses. [Sidenote: Hungarians.] At length certaine Hungarians (who
had sometime bene after a sort Cleargie men) found vs out and one of them
could as yet sing many songs without booke, and was accompted of other
Hungarians as a Priest, and was sent for vnto the funerals of his deceased
countrey men. There was another of them also pretily wel instructed in his
Grammer: for hee could vnderstand the meaning of any thing that wee spake
but could not answere vs. These Hungarians were a great comfort vnto vs,
bringing vs Cosmos to drinke, yea and some times flesh for to eate also
who, when they requested to haue some bookes of vs, and I had not any to
giue them (for indede we had none but onely a Bible, and a breuiarie) it
grieued mee exceedingly. And I said vnto them: Bring mee some inke and
paper, and I will write for you so long as we shall remaine here: and they
did so. And I copied out for them Horas beata Virginis, and Officium
defunctorum. [Sidenote: A Comanian.] Moreouer, vpon a certaine day, there
was a Comanian that accompanied vs, saluting vs in Latine, and saying:
Saluete Domini. Wondering thereat and saluting him againe, I demaunded of
him, who had taught him that kind of salutation? Hee saide that hee was
baptised in Hungaria by our Friers, and that of them hee learned it. He
said moreouer, that Baatu had enquired many things of him concerning vs,
and that hee told him the estate of our order. Afterwarde I sawe Baatu
riding with his companie, and all his subiects that were householders or
masters of families riding with him, and (in mine estimation) they were not
fiue hundred persons in all. At length about the ende of Holy roode, there
came a certaine great Moal vnto vs (whose father was a Millenarie, which is
a great office among them) saying: [Sidenote: A iourney of 4.
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