WILLIAM DE RUBRUQUIS ad. 



1253. 



countries) wherewithal they are clad in winter. And 



alwaies against winter they make themselves two gownes, 



one with the fur inward to their skin, & another with 



the furre outward, to defend them from wind & snow, 



which for the most part are made of woolves skins, or 



Fox skins, or els of Papions. And when they sit within 



the house, they have a finer gowne to weare. The 



poorer sort make their upper gowne of dogs or of 



goats skins. When they goe to hunt for wild beasts, 



there meets a great company of them together, & in- 



vironing the place round about, where they are sure to 



find some game, by litle & litle they approch on al 



sides, til they have gotten the wild beasts into the j 



midst, as it were into a circle, & then they discharge 



their arrowes at them. Also they make themselves 



breeches of skins. The rich Tartars somtimes fur 



their gowns with pelluce or silke shag, which is exceeding 



soft, light, & warme. The poorer sort do line their l 



clothes with cotton cloth which is made of the finest 1 



wooll they can pick out, & of the courser part of the 1 



said wool, they make felt to cover their houses and | 



their chests, and for their bedding also. Of the same ■ 



wool, being mixed with one third part of horse haire, 1 



they make all their cordage. They make also of the j 



said felt coverings for their stooles, and caps to defende Great expense ; 



their heads from the weather : for all which purposes 

 they spend a great quantity of their wooll. And thus 

 much concerning the attyre of the men. 



Of the fashion which the Tartars use in cutting 

 their haire, and of the attire of their v^omen. 

 Chap. 8. 



THe men shave a plot foure square upon the crownes 

 of their heads, and from the two formost corners 

 they shave, as it were, two seames downe to their 

 temples : they shave also their temples and the hinder 

 part of their head even unto the nape of the necke : 

 likewise they shave the forepart of their scalp downe 



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of wooll. 



