offereth both his handes, and holdeth them
vp, as it were to be tyed: hoping to saue his
life, by offering himselfe bondslaue.
The chiefe bootie the Tartars seeke for
in all their warres, is to get store of captiues,
specially yong boyes, and girls, whom they
sell to the Turkes, or other their neighbors.
To this purpose they take with them great
baskets made like bakers panniers to carrie
them tenderly, and if any of them happen to
tyer, or to be sicke on the way, they dash
him against the ground, or some tree, and
so leaue him dead: The souldiers are not
troubled with keeping the captiues, and the
other bootie, for hindering the execution
of their warres, but they haue certein bands
that intend nothing els, appointed of pur∣pose
to receiue, and keepe the captiues and
the other praye.
The Russe borders (being vsed to their in∣uasions
lightly euery yeere in the sommer)
keepe fewe other cattel on the border parts,
saue swine onely, which the Tartar will not
touch, nor driue away with him: for that he
is of the Turkish religion, and will eate no
swines flesh. Of Christ our Sauiour they con∣fesse
asmuch as doeth the Turke in his Alka∣ron,
vz. that hee came of the Angell Gabriel,
and the Virgin Marie, that hee was a great
Prophet, and shalbe the Iudge of the world