ANTHONY JENKINSON ad. 



1559- 

 with an armie, & besieged the said Citie of Boghar, 

 the king being absent, and gone to the wars against 

 another prince, his kinsman, as the like chanceth in those 

 Countries once in two or three yeres. For it is mar- 

 veil, if a King reigne there above three or foure yeres, 

 to the great destruction of the Countrey, and marchants. 

 The 25 of March, we came to the foresayd towne 

 of Urgence, and escaped the danger of 400 rovers, which Urgence. 

 lay in waite for us backe againe, being the most of 

 them of kindred to that company of theeves, which we 

 met with going foorth, as we perceived by foure spies, 

 which were taken. There were in my company, and 

 committed to my charge, two ambassadors, the one from 

 the king of Boghar, the other from the king of Balke, The king of 

 and were sent unto the Emperor of Russia. And after J~' ° 

 having taried at Urgence, and the Castle of Sellysure, 

 eight daies for the assembling, and making ready of our 

 Caravan, the second of Aprill we departed from thence, 

 having foure moe Ambassadors in our companie, sent 

 from the king of Urgence, and other Soltans, his brethren, 

 unto the Emperor of Russia, with answere of such 

 letters as I brought them : and the same Ambassadors 

 were also committed unto my charge by the sayde Kings 

 and princes : to whome I promised most faithfully, and 

 swore by our law, that they should be well used in 

 Rusland, and suffered to depart from thence againe in 

 safetie, according as the Emperor had written also in 

 his letters : for they somewhat doubted, because there 

 had none gone out of Tartaria into Russia, of long time 

 before. 



The 23 of Aprill, we arrived at the Mare Caspium 

 againe, where we found our barke which we came in, 

 but neither anker, cable, cocke, nor saile : neverthelesse 

 wee brought hempe with us, and spunne a cable our 

 selves, with the rest of our tackling, and made us a 

 saile of cloth of cotton wooll, and rigged our barke as 

 well as we could, but boate or anker we had none. In 

 the meane time being devising to make an anker of wood 



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