The common sort of people, leaving the king and his guard with our
General, scattered themselves together with their sacrifices among our
people, taking a diligent view of every person: and such as pleased
their fancy (which were the youngest), they enclosing them about offered
their sacrifices unto them with lamentable weeping, scratching and
tearing their flesh from their faces with their nails, whereof issued
abundance of blood. But we used signs to them of disliking this, and
stayed their hands from force, and directed them upwards to the living
God, whom only they ought to worship. They shewed unto us their wounds,
and craved help of them at our hands; whereupon we gave them lotions,
plaisters, and ointments agreeing to the state of their griefs,
beseeching God to cure their diseases. Every third day they brought
their sacrifices unto us, until they understood our meaning, that we
had no pleasure in them; yet they could not be long absent from us,
but daily frequented our company to the hour of our departure, which
departure seemed so grievous unto them, that their joy was turned into
sorrow. They entreated us, that being absent we would remember them, and
by stealth provided a sacrifice, which we misliked.
Our necessary business being ended, our General with his company
travelled up into the country to their villages, where we found herds of
deer by a thousand in a company, being most large, and fat of body.
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