12 WESTERN H I N D O O S T A N. 



by Kouli Khan by ftorm, who put great part of the garrifon to 

 the fword, and made himfelf matter of a vaft treafure in arms, am- 

 munition, and jewels. Kouli Khan fliewed here a ftrong fpecimcn 

 of oriental juftice, by ripping up the bellies of eighty Kuzzdebajh^ 

 or foldiers, for only being prefent when feme of their comrades 

 forced one of the country women. 



Caffa. The Geitoefe, thofe once enterprizing people, made them- 



felves matters of Caffa^ a noted city and port on the Euxine fea, 

 in the famous peninfula of Krim Tartary. This they feized in 

 1261, and made the emporium of the commodities of India and 

 Perfia, which were brought down the Oxus, and the other 

 routes mentioned in the preceding page. They colonized Caffa 

 with their own countrymen, and gained prodigious wealth 

 during the time they were in polTeflion. It was wretted from 

 them in 1475, by Mahomet the great, and with it foon expired 

 the mighty power of that city of merchants. Genoa, for cen- 

 turies the rival of Venice^, equally potent, and equally brave, 

 waged long and fierce wars with each other, incited more by 

 avarice, than the ambition of glory. 



BocHARA. Bocharay not far to the fuuth of Samarcand, was another 



great emporium^ and communicated the eattern articles to all 

 the neighbouring parts of Tartary. It traded with India, China, 

 and Perjia, and partook of thofe of Mufcovy, by the caravans 

 •which went from that empire to Cathay. This city feems to 

 have been of more modern date : it is not mentioned, as far as 

 i recoiled:, before the days of the Nubian Geographer, who 

 wrote fome time prior to the year 1151? but it appears to have 

 been in the next century a moft flourifhing place. 



4 Anthonie 



