The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02Hakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
also protested, that they should sooner chop off his head, then withdrawe
him out of my companie. Moreouer I my selfe saide, that without mine
associate I could not goe: and that we stood in neede of two seruants at
the least, to attend vpon vs, because, if one should chance to fall sicke,
we could not be without another. Then returning vnto the court, he told
these sayings vnto Baatu. And Baatu commanded saying: let the two Priests
and the interpreter goe together, but let the clearke return vnto Sartach.
And comming againe vnto vs, hee tolde vs euen so. And when I would haue
spoken for the clearke to haue had him with vs, he saide: No more words:
for Baatu hath resolued, that so it shall be; and therefore I dare not goe
vnto the court any more. Goset the clearke had remaining of the almes money
bestowed vpon him, 26. Yperperas, and no more; 10. Whereof he kept for
himselfe and for the lad, and 16. he gaue vnto the man of God for vs. And
thus were we parted asunder with teares: he returning vnto the court of
Sartach, and our selues remaining still in the same place.
De itinere fraturn versus curiam Mangu cham. Cap. 22.
In Vigilia Assumptionis peruenit ipse clericus ad Curiam Sartach: et in
crastino fuerunt Sacerdotes Nestormi induti vestimentis nostris coram
Sartach. Tunc ducti fuimus ad alium hospitem, qui debebat nobis prouidere
de domo et cibo et equis. Sed quia non habuimus, quod daremus ei, omnia
malè faciebat. [Sidenote: Quintano septimanas iuxta Etiliam descendebant.]
Et bigauimus cum Baatu descendendo iuxta Etiliam quinque septimanas.
Aliquando habuit socius meus tantam famem, quod dicebat mihi quasi
lachrymando: videbatur mihi quod nunquam comederim. Forum sequitur semper
Curiam Baatu. Sed illud erat tam longè à nobis, quod non poteramus ire.
Oportebat enim nos ire pedibus pro defectu equorum. [Sidenote: Quidam
Hungari.] Tandem inuenerunt nos quidam Hungari, qui fuerant Clericuli,
quorum vnus sciebat adhuc cantare multa corde, et habebatur ab alijs
Hungaris quasi Sacerdos, et vocabatur ad exequias suorum defunctorum: Et
alius fuerat competenter instructus in Grammatica: qui intelligebat
quicquid dicebamus ei literaliter, sed nesciebat respondere: qui fecerunt
nobis magnam consolationem, afferentes cosmos ad bibendum, et carnes
aliquando ad comedendum: qui quum postulassent à nobis aliquos libros, et
non haberem quos possem dare, nullos enim habebam, nisi Biblium et
breuiarium, dolui multum. Tunc dixi eis, afferte nobis chartas, et ego
scribam vobis, quandiu erimus hîc: quod et fecerunt. Et scripsi vtrasque
horas Beatæ Virginis et officium defunctorum. [Sidenote: Comanus] Quodam
die iunxit se nobis quidam Comanus, salutans nos verbis latinis, dicens,
Saluete Domini. Ego mirens, ipso resalutato, quæsiui ab eo, quis eum
docuerat illam salutationem. Et ipse dixit quod in Hungaria fuit baptizatus
a fratribus nostris qui docuerant illam salutationem. Et ipsi dixit quod in
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