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t humannature could be so degenerate; I told him if I could get but fouror five men well armed to go with me, I was resolved to go anddestroy that vile, abominable idol, and let them see that it had nopower to help itself, and consequently could not be an object ofworship, or to be prayed to, much less help them that offeredsacrifices to it.

　　In passing this frightful wilderness we saw, two or three times,little parties of the Tartars, but they seemed to be upon their ownaffairs, and to have no design upon us; and so, like the man whomet the devil, if they had nothing to say to us, we had nothing tosay to them: we let them go. Once, however, a party of them cameso near as to stand and gaze at us. Whether it was to consider ifthey should attack us or not, we knew not; but when we had passedat some distance by them, we made a rear-guard of forty men, andstood ready for them, letting the caravan pass half a mile orthereabouts before us. After a while they marched off, but theysaluted us with five arrows at their parting, which wounded a horseso that it disabled him, and we left him the next day, poorcreature, in great need of a good farrier. We saw no more arrowsor Tartars that time.

　　I told Atkins all this, and he heard me with great earnestness; butit seemed as if he turned off the discourse to the rest, for hesaid to me he would go and have some talk with his wife; so he wentout a while, and we talked to the rest. I perceived they were allstupidly ignorant as to matters of religion, as much as I was whenI went rambling away from my father; yet there were none of thembackward to hear what had been said; and all of them seriouslypromised that they would talk with their wives about it, and dotheir endeavours to persuade them to turn Christians.