JOHN DE PLANO CARPINI ad. 



1246. 

 a very large and a populous citie, but it is nowe in a 

 maner brought to nothing : for there doe scarce remaine 

 200. houses, the inhabitants whereof are kept in extreame 

 bondage. Moreover, out of Russia and Comania, they 

 proceeded forward against the Hungarians, and the 

 Polonians, and there manie of them were slaine, as is 

 aforesaid : and had the Hungarians manfully withstood 

 them, the Tartars had beene confounded and driven 

 backe. Returning from thence, they invaded the 

 countrey of the Morduans being pagans, and conquered T'he 

 them in battell. Then they marched against the people ^'^^'^'*^^^- 

 called Byleri, or Bulgaria magna, & utterly wasted the Bulgaria 

 countrey. From hence they proceeded towards the ^^^S"^- 

 North against the people called Bastarci or Hungaria Hmgaria 

 magna, and conquered them also. And so going on ^^S*^^- 

 further North, they came unto the Parossitas, who having Pamsita. 

 little stomacks and small mouthes, eate not any thing at 

 all, but seething flesh they stand or sitte over the potte, 

 and receiving the steame or smoke thereof, are therewith 

 onely nourished, and if they eate anie thing it is very 

 little. From hence they came to the Samogetae, who live Samogetce. 

 onely upon hunting, and use to dwell in tabernacles onely, 

 and to weare garments made of beastes skinnes. From 

 thence they proceeded unto a countrey lying upon the 

 Ocean sea, where they found certaine monsters, who in The North 

 all things resembled the shape of men, saving that their °^^^^' 

 feete were like the feete of an oxe, and they had in deede 

 mens heads but dogges faces. They spake, as it were, Northeme 

 two words like men, but at the third they barked like ^lonsters. 

 dogges. From hence they retired into Comania, and 

 there some of them remaine unto this day. 



Of the expedition of duke Cyrpodan. Chap. 16. 



AT the same time Occoday Can sent duke Cyrpodan Ker^s. 

 with an armie against Kergis, who also subdued 

 them in battell. These men are Pagans, having no 

 beardes at all. They have a custome when any of their 

 fathers die, for griefe and in token of lamentation to 



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