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64 VOYAGES OF SIR HUGH WILLOUGHBY AND OTHERS,
and they took me to be a Ruffian. Then they began to hallow with thefe words, éghaos,
oghaoco, oghaoo, many times together. Andas they were thus finging and out-calling, I
faw a thing like a finger of a man two times together thruft through the gown from
the prieft. I afked them that fat next to me what it was that I faw, and they faid not his
finger ; for he was yet dead: and that which J faw appear through the gown wasa beait,
but what beaft they knew not nor would not tell. AndI looked upon the gown, and
there was no hole to be feen: and then at the laft the prieft lifted up his head with his
fhoulder and arm, and all his body, and came forth to the fire. Thus far of their
fervice which I faw during the fpace of certain hours: but how they do worthip their
idols that I faw not: for they put up their ftuff for to remove from that place where
they lay. And I went to him that ferved the prieft, and afked him what their God
faid to him when he lay as dead. He anfwered that his own people doth not know,
neither is it for them to know: for they muft do as he commanded. This I faw the
fifth day of January in the year of our Lord 1556 after the Englifh account.
ere oe
Or the Permians, Samoites, and Lappes.
(Hax.urr I. 491.)
THE Permians and Samoites that lye from Ruflia, N. and N. E. are thought likewife
to have taken their beginning fromthe Tartar kind. And it may partly be gueffed by
the fafhion of their countenance, as having all broad and flat faces as the Tartars have,
except the Chircafles. “The Permians are accounted for a very ancient people. ‘They
are now fubject to the Ruffle. They live by hunting and trading with their furs, as
alfo doth the Samoit, that dwelleth more towards the North Sea. ‘The Samoit hath
his name (as the Ruffle faith) of eating himfelf: as if in times paft they lived as the
cannibals, eating one another. Which they make more probable, becaufe at this time
they eat all kind of raw flefh, whatfoever it be, even the very carrion that lieth in the
ditch. But as the Samoits themfelves will fay, they were called Samoie, that is, of
themfelves as though they were indigene, or people bred upon that very foil, that
never changed their feat from one place to another, as moft nations have done. ‘They
are fubjeét at this time to the Emperor of Ruffia. :
I talked with certain of them, and find that they acknowledge one God: but repre-
fent him by fuch things as they have moft ufe and good by. And therefore they wor-
fhip the fun, the ollen, the lofh, and fuch like. As for the ftory of Slata Baba, or
the golden hag, (which I have read in fome maps, and defcriptions of thefe countries, to
be an idol after the form of an old woman) that being demanded by the prieft, giveth
them certain oracles, concerning the fuccefs and event of things, I found to be a very
fable. Only in the province of Obdoria upon the fea fide, near to the mouth of the
great river Obba, there is a rock, which naturally (being fomewhat helped by imagi-
nation) may feem to bear the fhape of a ragged woman, with achildin her arms (as
the rock by the North Cape the fhape of a friar,) where the Obdorian Samoites ufe
much to refort, by reafon of the commodity of the place for fifhing : and there fome-
time (as their manner is) conceive and pra¢tife their forceries, and ominous conjectur-
ings about the good or bad {peed of their journies, fifhings, huntings, and fuch like.
They are clad in feal fkins, with the hair fide outwards down as low as the knees,
with their breeches and netherftocks of the fame, both men and women. They are all
black haired, naturally beardlefs. And therefore the men are hardly difcerned from
the women by their looks: fave that the women wear a lock of hair down along both
their
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