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frefhments neceffary for fb great a Journy : Many of the 
Horfemen wer€ obliged, either to lead their Horfes on Foot, 
who were no longer able to carry them, or to reft in the 
midle of the Fields to furFer them to take Breath : And 
though the Qaarter-mafters and the Harbingers, ipared not 
their Pains, nor for Wood ( which they cut on all fides ) to 
fill with Faggots all the bad Paffages : Yet notwithftanding 
after the Horles and Chariots, which took the Van early in 
the morning had quite palTed, it was Impoffible to pafs after 
them : The Emperor himfelf, with his Son, and all the great 
Lords of the Court, were obliged more than once, to foot 
it over the Mud and the Marrfics, fearing to expofe them- 
felves to greater danger, if they fhould have paffed them on 
Horfe-back. 
When they came to Bridges,or thofe other obfl:ru9:ions all 
the Army ftayed : And as foon as the Emperor was paiTed, 
with fbme of the moft confiderable Perfbns,all the reft came 
together in a Throng,and every one flriving to pafs fii'ft,ma- 
ny were tumbled over into the Water : Others taking ways 
more about, found them more Dangerous,falling into Sloughs 
and Bogs, out of which they could not Recover themfelves. 
In fine, there were fo many Inconveniencies to be met with, 
in all the Ways of Eaftern Tartaryy that the old Officers 
who had followed the Court above ^oyearsy laid they had 
never fiiifered fb much in any" Journy. i ^ > >: 
It was on thofe Occafions, that the Emperor more than 
once, gave me tlie Marks of a Relpe£t altogether particular : 
the firft day that we put our felves in the way for returning, 
we were ft?yed in the eveniag, by a Torrent fb great and 
Rapid, that 'twas irnpolFibie to Ford it:The Emperor having 
by chance found a Uttle Boat^ which could not hold above 4. 
Perlbns-at moll, paifcd firft with his Sons , and fbme of the 
Principal Km^s r<.)llawed : All the other Princes, Lords, and 
Mm cLnncs^' wliich ciie reft of tlie Army attended, ( in the 
mean wliilej with Impaitience the return of the Boate,to car> 
ry thera to tiie other udQ of Tdrrent^becauie the nightap- 
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