Eastern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 2 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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Horses We Had Alwayes The Woorst, Because Wee Were Strangers.
For euery one
tooke their choice of the best horses before vs.
They prouided mee alwaies
of a strong horse, because I was very corpulent and heauy: but whether he
ambled a gentle pase or no, I durst not make any question. Neither yet
durst I complaine, although he trotted full sore. But euery man must be
contented with his lot as it fell. Whereupon wee were exceedingly troubled:
for oftentimes our horses were tired before we could come at any people.
And then wee were constrained to beate and whip on our horses, and to lay
our garments vpon other emptie horses: yea and sometimes two of vs to ride
vpon one horse.
De fame et siti, et alijs miserijs quas sustinuerant in itinere. Cap. 24.
De fame et siti, frigore et fatigatione non est numerus. Non enim dant
cibum nisi in sero. In mane dant aliquid bibere, vel sorbere milium. In
sero dabant nobis carnes, scapulam arietis cum costis et de brodio ad
mensuram bibere. Quando habebamus de brodio carnium ad satietatem optime
reficiebamur. Et videbatur mihi suauissimus potus et maxime nutriens. Feria
sexta permanebam ieiunus vsque ad noctem, nihil auriens. Tunc oportebat me
in tristitia et dolore comedere carnes. [Sidenote: Defectus materia ignis.]
Aliquando oportebat nos comedere carnes semicoctas vel fere crudas propter
defectum materia ignis quando iacebamus in campis et de nocte
descendebamus: quia tunc non poteramus bene colligere stercora equorum vel
boum: aliam materiam ignis raro inueniebamus; nisi forte alicubi aliquas
spinas.
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