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and being coupled to a tame horfe by an baker, for 

 months together, grow gentle and obedient ; and arc 

 thus trained for draught, and are found to be infi- 

 nitely ftronger than a common horfe. The Khabmicks 

 fometimes hunt thefc horfes as their food, and ufe 

 their fkins for cloaths in winter. 



The Tarpms are a kind of \yild-horfes, in the defart, 

 ead of the river IVik. They are of a middling fizc, 

 roundiih, (liorr, generally of a blueifli-grey colour, 

 with big heads, and ewe-necked. They are taken 

 v/ith a noofe, and broken to the faddle, by being 

 coupled to a tame horfe. 



The Roolans, or Turchans, are another kind of wild- 

 horfcs, in the great defart. They are higher than the 

 T'arpans, nioufc-grey in colour, with long upright- 

 ftanding ears, their manes and tails thinner and 

 fliorter than the common breed, their coats long and 

 thick. They feed by thoufands together in one Taboon. 

 The Kirghii Rhaijfaks flioot them with guns, and cat 

 them. 



All kinds of horfes are eaten by the Tartars and 

 Khalmucks. A foal is reputed a great dainty. Mares 

 milk is likewife a frequent drink, which, when kept 

 and fermented, becomes' intoxicating, once diflilled, 

 it is called Roomyfs, twice, Arekha, and is very ftrong 

 and inebriating. The TchcrejmJJ'es and Tcheiiuajfes, pagan 

 nations, near the foJga, in the government of Ragaij, 

 ufe the horfe in their facrifices, and chiefly white ones, 

 pfpecially in their great annual folemnities in autumn; 



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