upon the Euxine and Cafpian Seas. 1 1 3 



tive Orcadians, Ruffes, Poles, Hungars, and of divers other Nations. The Nagoy Tar- 

 tars are alfo Black or rather Tawny > which I Conjecture is not To much natural, as 

 proceeding from the heat of the Sun, which is in thefe* Parts fome Months of the Year 

 much more Exceiiive than one would exped from the Climate. And befides, their 

 Children go Hark naked during the great heats in Summer. It is alfo remarkable, 

 That the Cold in Winter in the fame Country is exceeding fevere, and one would 

 think to them who have fuch mean accommodation, intolerable. Thefe Nagoy Tar- 

 tars have great (tore of Cattle, as Kine, Sheep, Hcrfcs and Camels, and yet notwith- 

 standing they are very ill clad, molt of their Clothing being Sheep-Skins, and thofe 

 but fcurvily dreiTcd. They have no fort of Com or Grain, mightily fcorning the 

 Europeans and Pcrfnvis, whofe chief Diet, they fay, is the top of a pitiful weed. Po- 

 lygamy is not only allowed, but altogether in fathiou among them, molt having di- 

 vers Wives, more or fewer according unto their Quality and Ability ; who unlets 

 they are Captivated by War, are fuch as they buy of their. Parents or Kindred for 

 Cattle. If one Brother dye, the other takes all his Wives, who are ufually 5. or 6. 

 But if all the Brothers die, either in War or by Difeafes, then they are devolved like 

 other Goods and Chattels unto the Elder Brother's Son, they never fullering any mar- 

 ried Woman, during life, to go out of the Kindred. 



Here our Author hath inferted a 'Sif courfe concerning diners odd y 

 and fome barbarous Cujlomes V?hich haye long prevailed among the 

 Nagoy Tartars, ' and wherewith they "frill not eafily Vijpence. $ut 

 they giving little light unto Hijlory or Geography^ I have not thought 

 them worthy the trouble of tranferibing ; ncr do I apprehend they would 

 afford any confulerable injlrutlwn or diver tifement unto the <l{eader. 



Thefe Tartars of the Great Nagoy when they remove their habitation, tranfport 

 their Houfcs from place to place in Waggons with 4 Wheels, which arc drawn ufually 

 by Camels i they pafs up and down the Country in great Hordcs,their ordinary march 

 is from the Volga unto Busk$tv(hak£ •> thence to Vorojhne, Samara, Eirgeejfe, Eijhene, 

 Ougogura, Reimpesfy, and all along under the Calmukfs Country, untill they arrive at 

 the jaick^ or Tci\e: Sometimes they. Dais by Cajjoone, Aunorv, Carmyes Samar, and Co 

 to Saraicbika : This is ordinarily their Summer Progrcis. Againlt Winter they return 

 unto thofe parts of the Country which border upon the Caj^un Sea. As Baldly upon 

 the Cajfian Sea i Bcallnfia, Kitgacb, Sbeennamara, Coudake, Caradowan, A Cuban i and 

 higher upon the Volga, fcattering themfelves upon the Sea-Oiore and Banks of the 

 Rivers among the Reeds and VVoods, or wherefoever they find the Climate moit 

 mild and belt Defence againlt the Cold, which in the Winter is in thefe Parts ex- 

 tremely fevere - , Co that 'tis hard to determine whether they fufTer more from the Heat 

 in Summer, or Cold in Winter. During which latter Seafon they leave their Hergek 

 or Horfes, and mod of their greater Cattle to (hift for themfelves in the Deferts. 



Having had often occalion to mention the River Jaichg or T<v% I (hall here give a 

 fhort account of what I have obierved and learnt concerning its Rife and Courfe. It 

 comes from the Calmuh^s Land, where it is thought to fpring-, though fome of the 

 Ruffes affirm it, Fountains are more Remote in Siberia, the Southern parts of which is 

 alio inhabited if not poiTciTed by the Kalmuk^s, fome of whofe Vhtjfes or Hords arc 

 iubjcdt unto the Muscovite s > "others in League with them: but they have fomedmes 

 cruel Wars, and did formerly deltroy Tumen with fome other Towns and Caffles of 

 the Ruffes, who they apprehended did incroach too fait upon them. But to return 

 unto the Courfe of the Teil^, after it hath palled through the Calmukgs Country, it 

 divides the Great Nagoy from Caffacby Horda, and after it .hath paiTed in all a Thou- 

 sand miles, throwes it felt into the Cajfian Sea a little below Seraicbika. This is a ve- 

 ry large River, and the I and on each fide well cloathed with Wood, Grafs, divers 

 forts of Herbs and wild Fruits, and the Water full of good Filli => which Convenien- 

 ces do oft-times invite the Coffacks to make their abode theref and from thence they 

 make Incuriions on divers parts bordering on the Caflun Sea. This River, among 



diveis 



