ANTHONY JENKINSON ad. 



1558. 

 from place to place with camels, & therin their wives, 

 children, and all their riches, which is very litle, is 

 caried about, and every man hath at the least foure 

 or five wives besides concubines. Use of money they 

 have none, but doe barter their cattell for apparell 

 and other necessaries. They delight in no arte nor 

 science, except the warres, wherein they are expert, but 

 for the most part they be pasturing people, and have 

 great store of cattel, which is all their riches. They eate 

 much flesh, and especially the horse, and they drinke 

 mares milke, wherewith they be oftentimes drunke : they 

 are seditious & inclined to theft and murther. Corne 

 they sowe not, neither doe eate any bread, mocking the 

 Christians for the same, and disabling our strengths, 

 saying we live by eating the top of a weede, and drinke 

 a drinke made of the same, allowing their great devouring 

 of flesh, and drinking of milke to be the increase of 

 their strength. But now to proceed forward to my 

 journey. 



All the countrey upon our right hand the river Volga, 

 from over against the river Cama unto the towne of 

 Astracan, is the land of Crimme, whose inhabitants be The Crimme 

 also of the lawe of Mahomet, and live for the most part Tartars. 

 according to the fashions of the Nagayes, having con- 

 tinual wars with the Emperour of Russia, and are valiant 

 in the fielde, having countenance, and support from the 

 great Turke. 



The 16. day of June we passed by certaine fishermens 

 houses called Petowse twenty leagues from the river 

 Cama, where is great fishing for sturgeon, so continuing 

 our way untill the 22. day, and passing by another 

 great river called Samar, which falleth out of the afore- The river of 

 saide countrey, and runneth through Nagay, and entreth Samar - 

 into the saide river of Volga. The 28. day wee came 

 unto a great hill, where was in times past a castle made 

 by the Crimmes, but now it is ruined, being the just 

 midway betweene the said Cazan and Astrachan, which 

 is 200. leagues or thereabout, in the latitude of 51. 



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