A.D. 



1253- 



The 1 6. oj 

 September. 



46. days. 

 Or, Kan^tta-. 



Or, laic. 



laic twelve 

 dayes journey 

 from Volga. 



Pascadr. 



The 



Hungarians 

 descendedfrom 

 the Bascirdes. 



THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



but by reason that we are sent by your lord. Wherfore 

 sithence we are committed unto your charge, you ought 

 in no wise to forsake us. Then he saide : all shalbe well. 

 Afterward he caused us to shewe him all our garments : 

 and whatsoever hee deemed to be lesse needfull for us, he 

 willed us to leave it behind in the custodie of our hoste.- 

 On the morrow they brought unto ech of us a furred 

 gowne, made all of rammes skinnes, with the wool stil 

 upon them, and breeches of the same, and bootes also or 

 buskins according to their fashion, and shooes made of 

 felt, and hoods also made of skinnes after their maner. 

 The second day after Holy rood, we began to set forward 

 on our journey, having three guides to direct us : and we 

 rode continually Eastward, till the feast of All Saints. 

 Throughout all that region, and beyonde also did the 

 people of Changle inhabite, who were by parentage 

 descended from the Romanes. Upon the North side of 

 us, wee had Bulgaria the greater, and on the South, the 

 foresaid Caspian sea. 



Of the river of lagac : and of divers regions or 

 nations. Chap. 23. 



HAving traveiled twelve dayes journey from Etilia, wee 

 found a mightie river called lagac : which river 

 issuing out of the North, from the land of Pascatir, 

 descendeth into the foresaid sea. The language of 

 Pascatir, and of the Hungarians is all one, and they are all 

 of them shepheards, not having any cities. And their 

 countrey bordereth upon Bulgaria the greater, on the 

 West frontier thereof From the Northeast part of the 

 said countrey, there is no citie at all. For Bulgaria the 

 greater is the farthest countrey that way, that hath any 

 citie therein. Out of the forenamed region of Pascatir, 

 proceeded the Hunnes of olde time, who afterwarde were 

 called Hungarians. Next unto it is Bulgaria the greater. 

 Isidore reporteth concerning the people of this nation, that 

 with swift horses they traversed the impregnable walles 

 and bounds of Alexander, (which, together with the rocks 



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