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ejoice to see it.I saluted the brave Scots merchant with my first acknowledgment ofthis; and taking him by the hand, I said to him, "Blessed be God,we are once again amongst Christians." He smiled, and answered,"Do not rejoice too soon, countryman; these Muscovites are but anodd sort of Christians; and but for the name of it you may see verylittle of the substance for some months further of our journey." -"Well," says I, "but still it is better than paganism, andworshipping of devils." - "Why, I will tell you," says he; "exceptthe Russian soldiers in the garrisons, and a few of the inhabitantsof the cities upon the road, all the rest of this country, forabove a thousand miles farther, is inhabited by the worst and mostignorant of pagans." And so, indeed, we found it.
In this posture we encamped for the night; but the enemy was uponus before we had finished. They did not come on like thieves, aswe expected, but sent three messengers to us, to demand the men tobe delivered to them that had abused their priests and burned theiridol, that they might burn them with fire; and upon this, theysaid, they would go away, and do us no further harm, otherwise theywould destroy us all. Our men looked very blank at this message,and began to stare at one another to see who looked with the mostguilt in their faces; but nobody was the word - nobody did it. Theleader of the caravan sent word he was well assured that it was notdone by any of our camp; that we were peaceful merchants,travelling on our business; that we had done no harm to them or toany one else; and that, therefore, they must look further for theenemies who had injured them, for we were not the people; so theydesired them not to disturb us, for if they did we should defendourselves.
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