strange and very inconvenient garb, made of gold cloth, cut and

arranged little bits of bread on a saucer, and then put them into

a cup with wine, repeating at the same time different names and

prayers. Meanwhile the deacon first read Slavonic prayers,

difficult to understand in themselves, and rendered still more

incomprehensible by being read very fast, and then sang them turn

and turn about with the convicts. The contents of the prayers

were chiefly the desire for the welfare of the Emperor and his