than the lying and false suggestions of the Flemings, used no ill
treaty towards them.


YERASLAVE.


Yeraslave also is a town of some good fame for the commodities of
hides, tallow, and corn, which it yields in great abundance. Cakes
of wax are there also to be sold, although other places have greater
store; this Yeraslave is distant from Moscow about two hundred
miles, and betwixt them are many populous villages. Their fields
yield such store of corn, that in conveying it towards Moscow,
sometimes in a forenoon, a man shall see seven hundred or eight
hundred sleds going and coming, laden with corn and salt fish; the
people come a thousand miles to Moscow to buy that corn, and then
carry it away upon sleds; and these are those people that dwell in
the north parts, where the cold is so terrible that no corn doth
grow there, or, if it spring up, it never comes to ripeness. The
commodities that they bring with them are salt fish, skins, and
hides.


VOLOGDA.


Vologda being from Moscow five hundred and fifty miles, yields the
commodities of hemp and flax, although the greatest store of flax is
sold at Novogorode.