The T Mi (her unto the Reader. 



largely acquaints us with the great fpoil thefe Outlaws made oil the Coatt of Mc- 

 fanclcron, that they took Ajierabatb one of the Emperours Royal Scats, and having 

 continued feveral days in poflcflion, retired with great Booty and little lofs. 



I could render feme probable account of thofe Thieves our Writer calls Sigakgs, 

 of what Nation they are, when they began, and how they live *, but lhall for brevity- 

 fake wave this and divers other Remarks j and that I may manifeft how impartial 

 my fentiments are in reference unto the Treatife I have here publifhed , 1 (hall hrtt ac- 

 knowledge That I never met with any Writer who calls that vatt Plain between the 

 Rivers Boriflhcnes and lanais the Defart of Ingel zndVnguI, although I have feen di- 

 vers Journals both Antient andModern, of Perfons who have frequently traverfed 

 that vait Region : and have read molt Hittories, and perufed Geographical Books or 

 Tables that relate unto the Tartars, or their Countrey. Secondly, I mutt declare my 

 ' diflruft of his computation concerning the compafs of the Cajpian Sea i which he 

 makes lefs than in truth it is,asl could largely demonttrates though he hath pretty well 

 falved the miftake, by his allowance of a thoufand Miles for Bays,broken Ground } and 

 Promontories. LalUy, Our Author is greatly miftaken, when he affirms, There is 

 no Nation of Tartars between thofe of Bocbara and China; whereas indeed ftveral 

 very Potent Kingdoms intervene. And yet he hath luckily Andabatorum more, hit up- 

 on the Truth, where he allures us, there are no Catayans between the Vsbeg Tartars 

 and China. For indeed there is at prefent no Catayne befides Cbina.whlch is fo called 

 by all Tartars, Perfians, Arabians, and other Malmmetans, asalfoby the Mufcwites and 

 other Nations who travel thither by Land, either in the Quality of AmbaiTadors, or 

 Merchants. The ugh formerly there was a mighty People, either Jmkf or Tartars 

 Tthey being both Originally the famc,as to Extract, Language, Manners, Religion,and 

 Government; who lay dire&ly in the way between Perfia and Cbina.znd were certain- 

 ly the Cbauot Ptolomy, but almoft extirpated by Jingiz Chan, whom they vigoroully 

 refitted. And the remainder have ever iince gone under the more general Names of 

 Moguh and Tartars, as I (hall hereafter more clearly and fully demonftrate in a Dif- 

 courfe which I have long ago written, and may fpeedily publift, concerning the Be- 

 ginnings and Progrefs ot the Turkifh and Tartarian Nations and Empires, 



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