A.D. 



1559- 



Angrim. 



Mandeville 



speaketh 



hereof. 



Or Kitay. 



Small people. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



complexion. Their religion also, as the Tartars report, 

 is christian, or after the maner of Christians, and their 

 language peculiar, differing from the Tartarian tongue. 



There are no great and furious Beares in travelling 

 through the waies aforesaid, but wolves white and 

 blacke. And because that woods are not of such 

 quantitie there, as in these parts of Russia, but in maner 

 rather scant then plentiful, as is reported, the Beares 

 breed not that way, but some other beasts (as namely 

 one in Russe called Barse) are in those coasts. This 

 Barse appeareth by a skinne of one seene here to sell, 

 to be nere so great as a big lion spotted very faire and 

 therefore we here take it to be a Leopard or Tiger. 



Note that 20 daies journey from Cathay is a countrey 

 named Angrim, where liveth the beast that beareth the 

 best Muske, & the principall therof is cut out of the 

 knee of the male. The people are taunie, & for that the 

 men are not bearded nor differ in complexion from 

 women, they have certaine tokens of iron, that is to 

 say : the men weare the sunne round like a bosse 

 upon their shoulders, and women on their privie parts. 

 Their feeding is raw flesh in the same land, and in 

 another called * Titay : the Duke there is called Can. 

 They worship the fire, and it is 34 dayes journey from 

 great Cathay, and in the way lyeth the beautifull people, 

 eating with knives of golde, and are called Comorom, and 

 the land of small people is neerer the Mosko then Cathay. 



The instructions of one of Permia, who re- 

 porteth he had bene at Cathay the way before 

 written, and also another way neere the sea 

 coast, as foloweth, which note was sent out 

 of Russia from Giles Holmes. 



First from the province of Dwina is knowen the way 

 to Pechora, and from Pechora travelling with Olens 



Pechora but 

 six dayes 



land or water or narts > is sixe dayes journey by land, and in the Sommer 

 from Ob. as much by water to the river of Ob. 



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