RICHARD JOHNSON a,d. 



1556. 



water that stoode before him. And they answered me, 



that it was his head, his shoulder and left arme, which 



the line had cut off, I meane the knot which I sawe [I. 285.] 



afterwarde drawen hard together. Then I rose up and 



would have looked whether it were so or not, but 



they laid hold on me, and said, that if they should 



see him with their bodily eyes, they shoulde live no 



longer. And the most part of them can speake the 



Russe tongue to bee understood : and they tooke me 



to be a Russian. Then they beganne to hallow with 



these wordes, Oghaoo, Oghaoo, Oghaoo, many times 



together. And as they were thus singing & out calling, 



I sawe a thing like a finger of a man two times 



together thrust through the gowne from the Priest. 



I asked them that sate next to me what it was that I 



sawe, and they saide, not his finger ; for he was yet 



dead : and that which I saw appeare through the gowne 



was a beast, but what beast they knew not nor would 



not tell. And I looked upon the gowne, and there 



was no hole to bee seene : and then at the last the 



Priest lifted up his head with his shoulder and arme, 



and all his bodie, and came forth to the fire. Thus 



farre of their service which I sawe during the space of 



certaine houres : but how they doe worship their Idoles 



that I saw not : for they put up their stuffe for to 



remove from that place where they lay. And I went 



to him that served the Priest, and asked him what 



their God saide to him when he lay as dead. Hee 



answered, that his owne people doeth not know : 



neither is it for them to know : for they must doe as 



he commanded. This I saw the fift day of Januarie 



in the yere of our Lord 1556. after the English account. 



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