182 Method of making a WINE, 



of which the tafte ought to be a pleafant mixture of fweet and 

 four. Agitation muft be employed every time before it be ufed. 



To this detail of the procefs, he fubjoined, that, in order to 

 obtain milk in fufficient quantity, the Tartars have a cuftom 

 of feparating the foal from, the mare during the day, and al- 

 lowing it to fuck during the night. And, when the milk is to 

 be taken from the mare, which is generally about five times 

 a-day, they always produce the foal, on the fuppofition, that Ihe 

 yields her milk more copioufly when it is prefent. 



To the above method of making Koumtfs, which I have 

 tranflated as literally as poflible from the original Ruffian manu- 

 fcript now in my pofleflion, I will add fome particulars, taken 

 from other communications with which I was favoured by Tar- 

 tars themfelves. For though I think no addition necefTary to 

 render it either more fimple or more intelligible, yet I think it 

 my duty to with-hold nothing which may, in any wife, throw 

 light on fo efTential a part of my fubjedl. 



ACCORDING to the account of a Tartar who lived to the 

 fouth-eaft of Orenbourg, the proportion of milk and fouring 

 ought to be the fame as above ; only, to prevent changing the 

 veffel, the milk may be put at once into a pretty high and nar- 

 row veflel ; and, in order to accelerate the fermentation, fomc 

 warm milk may be added to it, and, if neceflfary, more fouring. 



FROM a Tartar whom I met with at the fair of Macarieff 'upon 

 the Volga, and from whom I purchafed one of the leathern bags *. 



which. 



/ *, 



* THIS bag was made of a horfe's hide undrefied, and, 

 by-having been fmoked, had acquired a great degree of 

 hardnefs. Its fhape was conical, like the figure in the 

 margin, but was, at the lame time, fbmewhat triangular, 

 from being compofed of three different pieces, fet in a 

 circular bafe of the fame hide. The futures, which 

 were made with tendons, were fecured by a covering on 

 the outfide, with a doubling of the fame Ikin, very clofe- 

 ly fecured. It had a dirty appearance, and a very dif- 

 agreeable fmell. On being afked the reafon of this, he 



faid, " The remains of the old Koumifs were left, in order to fupply a ferment 

 " new milk." 



