A.D. 



1558. 



Bread made 

 of straw. 



The unmerci- 

 fulnesse of the 

 Russes toward 

 the poore. 



Stooves or 

 baths usuall 

 with the 

 Moscovites. 



Reported 

 by Thomas 

 Bulky. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



in a small time, within these two yeeres, above 80. 

 persons young and old, which have died onely for 

 lacke of sustenance : for if they had had straw and 

 water enough, they would make shift to live : for a 

 great many are forced in the winter to drie straw and 

 stampe it, and to make bread thereof, or at the least 

 they eate it in stead of bread. In the summer they 

 make good shift with grasse, herbes and rootes : barks 

 of trees are good meat with them at all times. There 

 is no people in the world, as I suppose, that live so 

 miserably as do the poverty in those parts : and the 

 most part of them that have sufficient for themselves, 

 and also to relieve others that need, are so unmerciful 

 that they care not how many they see die of famine 

 or hunger in the streets. 



It is a countrey full of diseases, divers, and evill, 

 and the best remedie is for anie of them, as they holde 

 opinion, to goe often unto the hote houses, as in a 

 maner every man hath one of his owne, which hee 

 heateth commonly twise every weeke, and all the 

 housholde sweate, and wash themselves therein. 



The names of certaine sortes of drinkes used 

 in Russia, and commonly drunke in the 

 Emperours Court. 



THe first and principall meade is made of the juice 

 or liccour taken from a berrie called in Russia, 

 Malieno, which is of a marveilous sweete taste, and of 

 a carmosant colour, which berry I have seene in Paris. 

 The second meade is called Visnova, because it is 

 made of a berry so called, and is like a black goose- 

 berrie : but it is like in colour and taste to the red 

 wine of France. 



The third meade is called Amarodina or Smorodina, 

 short, of a small berry much like to the small rezin, 

 and groweth in great plentie in Russia. 



The fourth meade is called Cherevnikyna, which is 

 made of the wilde blacke cherry. 



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