upon the Euxine and Cafpian Seas. ii 5 



Eaftward from thefe Calmukes, inclining unto the South towards China, live the 

 Turgeacbians, fo named from their chief Town, which fome call Jurgeacb, others Jur- 

 gench : Of which Countrey I cannot fay fo much as concerning the former, having 

 never been therein but once ■-, for in the Year 1620. there being great Wars in Jurge- 

 acb, between the Cban or King, and the Myrfa his Son •, fome of the Nagoy Tartars 

 hearing thereof, invaded the Countrey, who whilft they were united, durftnot peep 

 out of their own Borders, the Jurgeacbians being a numerous and warlike People. 

 Thefe Nagoys were all Volunteers, who went without any Command from their own 

 Prince, or Allowance from -the Muscovites y without whole content by mutual Agree- 

 ment they are not permitted to war. The news of their Expedition being brought 

 unto Ajbacan, the Voyvod, who had not long before made a League with the Jurge- 

 acbians, fent out Allye ( I fuppofe his true Name was Ali or Hah ) Myrfa a Tartarian 

 Prince, with a 1000 of his ownSubje&s, and 500 Ruffes, all Horfc. We were 2c 

 <3ays marching, before we came unto the Bordeis of Jurgeacb from Ajbacan ; whence 

 we proceeded 10 days journey, the Countrey through which we pafTed being mifera- 

 bly ravaged by the aforefaid Nagoys. At the end of whfch 30 days by a reafonable 

 Computation, 'twas judged we were diftant from Ajbacan at lcalt a 1 000 miles , 

 about which time we overtook them in the Valley of Ougogura, having got from the 

 Jurgeacbians an innumerable company of Cattle of divers forts, as Hor(e,Kine, Camels 

 and Sheep. We took all their Booty from them \ and as a further punilhment for 

 their Riot, took away their own fupernumerary Horfes, leaving them only a Horte a 

 Man for to convey them home. Then Ally Myrfa divided the Spoil, half he beftowed 

 upon thofe who did accompany him, and fent the remainder for a Prefent unto the 

 KoytW,retuming nothing unto the Jurgeacbians. ,becaufe they were taken from Thieves. 

 In the mean While the Prince of Jurgeacb in a pitcht Battel overthrew his Father, took 

 himPrifoner, put out both his Eyes, and caufed himfelf to be Crowned King. He 

 had a younger Brother,whom fearing that in time he might cccafion fome infurre&ion, 

 he gave Command unto fome of his Creatures, that they mould (bangle him, and 

 bring his Head : But divers of the Nobles, by whofe means he obtained the Soveraign- 

 ty, gaining intelligence thereof, would not permit his Order to be put in execution ; 

 but (eiiing on the Child, fent him unto the Emperour of Mufcovy, with whom he re- 

 mained when I was laft at Ajbacan^ 



But I muft return from the Jurgeacbians unto the Caragans, whom I have left be- 

 hind, and they do more immediately lxfer unto my prumile, which was to give an 

 Account of all the Nations and Countreys iircompatVmg the Cafiian Sea. 



The Countrey of the Caragans occupies moft of that vaft (pace, which intercedes 

 between the River Teike and the Dominions of the Ombegs, or Tartars of Boncbara, 

 and their Territory funounds the Nor th-Eait corner of the Cafpian Sa, proceeding 

 Southwards unto the River Jaxartes i and fome Hords of the faid People do inhabit 

 between the faid River and the Oxiis, which divides the Tartars of Bocbara and the 

 Caragans, from the Perfians and the Tartars of Balk. This Countrey of the Caragans 

 is very defart and barren ; the People miferably poor ■■> their Houfes are wretched Huts, 

 the greateft part under ground > they are very tawny and ill-favour' d ■■> their Habitati- 

 ons are fcatt'red, fcarcely deferving the Name of Villages : And they have no Town, 

 as I have been informed, beiides Preefjlannes, which is lituated on theSouth-fide of the 

 Jaxartes, near the Cafpian Sea ; which whilft I dwelt in Ajbacan, was by lurprize ta- 

 ken by the Cojfackj ; but they had little caufe to brag of their Victory, finding little 

 booty therein =, and the Caragans gauYring together, beat them out with great lofs of 

 Men, forcing them to retire into an Ifland 2 or 3 leagues from the Land which they 

 poffefs unto this day, no Nation being able, or elfe not caring to un-neft them, al- 

 though Tartarsy Perfians and Mufcovites , do continually fuifer by their Depreda- 

 tions. 



Towards the Eaft and by South of the Caragans, dwell the Tartars of Bocbara, who 

 are by divers called Tmbcgs. The Countrey which they poffefs is bettei watred, and 

 more fertile than molt of the preceeding, and there is great refort of Merchants from 

 divers Parts unto them, efpccially Perfians, Mufcovites, and feveral Nations of Indians, 

 as Mojgtlsy Boutdns, with many others, whofe Names I cannot recoiled. . I have been 



