The "Publijher unto the Reader. 



largely acquaints us with the great fpoil thefe Outlaws made on the Coaft of ATe- 

 Canderon, that they took After abatb one of the Emperours Royal Seats, and having 

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



I could render fome probable account of thofe Thieves our Writer calls Sigakçs^ 

 of what Nation they are, when they began, and how they live => but ftiall for brevity- 

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

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

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

 Rivers Borifthcnes and lands the Defart of Ingel and Vngul, although I have feen di- 

 vers Journals both Antient and Modern, of Perfons who have frequently traveried 

 that vait Region : and have read moft Hiftorics, and perufed Geographical Books or 

 ; Tables that relate unto the Tartars, or their Çountrey. Secondly, I muft declare my 

 diftruft of his computation concerning the compafs of the Cajpian Sea i which he 

 makes lefsthan in truth it is,asl could largely demonltrate, though he hath pretty well 

 Dived the mitiake, by his allowance of a thoufand Miles for Bays,broken Ground,and 

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

 no Nation of 'ïartar s between thofe of Bocbara and China i whereas indeed feveral 

 very Potent Kingdoms intervene. And yet he hath luckily Andabatomm more 3 hit up- 

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

 and China. For indeed there is at prefent no Cataym befides China,v/hlch is fb called 

 by all Tartars^ Perfians, Arabians, and other Mahumetans, as alfo by the Mufcovites and 

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

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

 Cthey being both Originally the fame,as to Extract, Language, Manners, Religion,and 

 GovernmenOwho lay directly in the way between Ferfia and Cbina,znd were certain- 

 ly the Chauo( Ptolomy, but almoft extirpated by Jingiz Chan, whom they vigoroufly 

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

 Mogttlls and Tartars, as 1 fhall 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 of the Turkifb and Tartarian Nations and Empires. 



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