although somewhat offended by my sudden and unexpected arrival, nevertheless invited me to a banquet, at which Scheachmet, the Tartar king of Savolha, was present, who was kept there in honourable servitude, as if in free custody, in two castles surrounded with walls, and situated amongst the lakes. In the course of dinner, he conversed with me on many subjects, through an interpreter, calling the emperor his brother, and declaring that all princes and kings were brothers to each other.
Having dined, and, according to the custom of the Lithuanians, received a present from the palatine, I proceeded on my journey first to the town of Moroschei, and then to
Grodno, fifteen miles.
To Grinki, six miles; and after crossing a wood,
To Narev, eight miles; and thence to the town of Bielsko; where I met with Nicolas Radovil, the palatine of Vilna, to whom I had already conveyed letters from the emperor, and who, although he had formerly presented me with an ambling nag and two carriage horses, now on this second occasion made me a present of a good gelding, and forced upon me also some Hungarian gold pieces, together with a ring, which he begged me to wear, in order that seeing it daily, I might the more easily remember him, especially in presence of the emperor.
From Bielsko, to the fortified wood-built town of Briesti, on the river Bug, into which flows the Muchavetz; and thence to the town of
Lamas; where leaving Lithuania, I entered the first Polish town, namely,
Partzov; at a short distance above which flows the small river Jasonica, which separates Lithuania from Poland.
Thence to Lublin, nine miles.
Rubin,
Orsindoff,
Savichost, on the other side of the Vistula.
