AD. THE EIS^GLISH VOYAGES 



1246. 



habitations of their Emperours and noble men) in regarde 

 of the great winde we were constrained to lye groveling on 

 the earth, and could not see by reason of the dust. There 

 is never any raine in Winter, but onely in Sommer, albeit 

 in so little quantitie, that sometimes it scarcely sufficeth to 

 allay the dust, or to moysten the rootes of the grasse. 

 There is often times great store of haile also. Insomuch 

 that when the Emperour elect was to be placed in his 

 Emperiall throne (my selfe being then present) there fell 

 such abundance of haile, that, upon the sudden melting 

 thereof, more then 160. persons were drowned in the same 

 place : there were manie tentes and other thinges also 

 caried away. Likewise, in the Sommer season there is on 

 the sudden extreame heate, and suddenly againe intol- 

 lerable colde. 



Of their forme, habite, and maner of living. 

 Chap. 4. 



The shape of HT^He Mongals or Tartars, in outward shape, are unlike 



the Tartars. X. to all Other people. For they are broader betweene 



the eyes, and the balles of their cheekes, then men of 



other nations bee. They have flat and small noses, litle 



eyes, and eye liddes standing streight upright, they are 



shaven on the crownes like priests. They weare their 



haire somewhat longer about their eares, then upon their 



foreheads : but behinde they let it growe long like 



Their habite. womans haire, whereof they braide two lockes binding 



eche of them behind either eare. They have short feet 



also. The garments, as well of their men, as of their 



women are all of one fashion. They use neither cloakes, 



hattes, nor cappes. But they weare Jackets framed after a 



strange manner, of buckeram, skarlet, or Baldakines. 



Like unto Fro- Their shoubes or gownes are hayrie on the outside, and 



btshirs men. q^^^ behinde, with tailes hanging downe to their 



hammes. They use not to washe their garments, neither 



will in any wise suffer them to bee washed, especially in 



Their the time of thunder. Their habitations bee rounde and 



tabernacles. cunningly made with wickers and staves in manner of 



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