RICHARD CHANCELOR ad. 



1553- 

 carriages are in the same sort, the people almost not 



knowing any other maner of carriage, the cause wherof is 



the exceeding hardnesse of the ground congealed in the 



winter time by the force of the colde, which in those 



places is very extreme and horrible, whereof hereafter we 



will say something. 



But nowe they having passed the greater part of their 



journey, mette at last with the Sleddeman (of whom I 



spake before) sent to the king secretly from the Justices 



or governours, who by some ill happe had lost his way, 



and had gone to the Sea side, which is neere to the 



Countrey of the Tartars, thinking there to have found 



our ship. But having long erred and wandered out of 



his way, at the last in his direct returne, hee met (as hee 



was comming) our Captaine on the way. To whom hee The Emper- 



by and by delivered the Emperours letters, which were ours courteous 



written to him with all courtesie and in the most 1 ovine r.f r t0 , 



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maner that could be : wherein expresse commandement 



was given, that post horses should bee gotten for him 



and the rest of his company without any money. Which 



thing was of all the Russes in the rest of their journey 



so willingly done, that they began to quarrell, yea, and 



to fight also in striving and contending which of them 



should put their post horses' to the sledde : so that after 



much adoe and great paines taken in this long and wearie 



journey, (for they had travailed very neere fifteene 



hundred miles) Master Chanceler came at last to Mosco 



the chiefe citie of the kingdome, and the seate of the 



king : of which citie, and of the Emperour himselfe, and 



of the principall cities of Moscovie, wee will speake 



immediatly more at large in this discourse. 



Of Moscovie, which is also called Russia. 



MOscovie, which hath the name also of Russia the 

 white, is a very large and spacious Countrey, every 

 way bounded with divers nations. Towards the South 

 and the East, it is compassed with Tartaria : the 

 Northren side of it stretcheth to the Scytian Ocean : upon 



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