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Tartars make their boats of the bark of trees, fewed lightly to- 

 gether. 

 Llh of Saga- It (locs not appear that the miflionaries went farther than 



"Tondon. The report they had of the great ifland of Sagalin, or 

 Sagbalian anga hata, or the ifland of the mouth of the black 

 river, was from fome Manchews fent by the emperor in their 

 barks. For want of neceffaries, they were foon obliged to re- 

 turn. They obferved certain villages ; and that the inhabitants 

 had neither horfes or any hearts of burden, but made ufe of a 

 fort of tame flags (rein deer) to draw their fledges. The ifland 

 is faid to be a hundred and eighty miles long and fixty broad. All 

 the coaft of the continent, from the part oppofite to this ifland, 

 as low as the northern boundary of Korea, is fcarcely known ; 

 it bounds the wcftcrn flde of the flreights of Tefo. What could 

 l)e faid of this obfcure part, and of the oppofite iflands, will be 

 delivered in a future volume of this work. 



FAUNULA 



