ANTHONY JENKINSON ad. 



1558. 



The fift meade is made of hony and water, with 

 other mixtures. 



There is also a delicate drinke drawn from the root 

 of the birch tree, called in the Russe tongue Berozevites, 

 which drinke the noble men and others use in Aprill, 

 May, and June, which are the three moneths of the 

 spring time : for after those moneths, the sappe of the 

 tree dryeth, and then they cannot have it. 



The voyage of Master Anthony Jenkinson, made [I. 324.] 

 from the citie of Mosco in Russia, to the 

 citie of Boghar in Bactria, in the yeere 1558 : 

 written by himselfe to the Merchants of 

 London of the Moscovie companie. 



He 23. day of April, in the yeere 1558. 

 (having obtained the Emperor of Russia 

 his letters, directed unto sundry kings 

 and princes, by whose dominions I 

 should passe) I departed from Mosco 

 by water, having with mee two of your 

 servants, namely, Richard Johnson, & 

 Robert Johnson, and a Tartar Tolmach, with divers 

 parcels of wares, as by the inventory appeareth : and 

 the 28. day we came to a town called Collom, distant 

 from the Mosco 20. leagues, & passing one league 

 beyond the saide Collom, we came unto a river called 

 Occa, into the which the river Mosco falleth, and looseth 

 his name : and passing downe the said river Occa 8. 

 leagues, we came unto a castle called Terrevettisko, 

 which we left upon our right hand, and proceeding 

 forward, the second day of May, we came unto another 

 castle called Peroslave, distant 8. leagues, leaving it also 

 on our right hand. The third day we came unto the 

 place where olde Rezan was situate, beeing now most 

 of it ruined and overgrowen, and distant from the said 

 Peroslave, 6. leagues : the 4. day we passed by a castle 

 called Terrecovia, from Rezan 12. leagues, & the 6. 

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