ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



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towne or habitation in the wilde fields, removing from 

 one place to another in great companies with their 

 cattel, whereof they have great store, as camels, horses, 

 and sheepe both tame and wilde. Their sheepe are of 

 great stature with great buttocks, weighing 60. or 80. 

 pound in weight. There are many wild horses which 

 the Tartars doe many times kil with their hawkes, and 

 that in this order. 



The hawkes are lured to sease upon the beasts 

 neckes or heads, which with chafing of themselves and 

 sore beating of the hawkes are tired : then the hunter 

 following his game doeth slay the horse with his arrow 

 or sword. In all this lande there groweth no grasse, 

 but a certaine brush or heath, whereon the cattell feed- 

 ing become very fat. 



The Tartars never ride without their bow, arrowes, 

 and sword, although it be on hawking, or at any 

 other pleasure, and they are good archers both on horse- 

 backe, and on foote also. These people have not the 

 use of golde, silver, or any other coyne, but when 

 they lacke apparell or other necessaries, they barter 

 their cattell for the same. Bread they have none, for 

 they neither till nor sow : they be great devourers of 

 flesh, which they cut in smal pieces, & eat it by hand- 

 fuls most greedily, & especially the horseflesh. Their 

 chiefest drink is mares milke sowred, as I have said 

 before of the Nagayans, & they wilbe drunk with the 

 same. They have no rivers nor places of water in 

 this countrey, until you come to the foresaid gulf, dis- 

 tant from the place of our landing 20. dayes journey, 

 except it be in wels, the water wherof is saltish, & 

 yet distant the one from the other two daies journey 

 and more. They eate their meate upon the ground, 

 sitting with their legs double under them, and so also 

 when they pray. Art or science they have none, but 

 live most idlely, sitting round in great companies in the 

 fields, devising, and talking most vainely. 



The 26. day of November, we departed from the 



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