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tivc CircafSians, Ruffes, Poles, Hangars, and of divers other Nations. The Nagoy Tar- 

 tars are alfo Black or rather Tawny ; which I Conjecture is not 10 much natural, as 

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

 much more Excciîïve than one would expect from the Climate. And beiides, their 

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

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

 think to them who have fitch mean accommodation, intollerable. Thefe Nagoy Tar- 

 tars have great ltore of Cattle, as Kine, Sheep, Horfes and Camels, and yet notwith- 

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

 but fcurvily drelTed. They have no fort of Corn or Grain, mightily fcorning the 

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

 lygamy is not only allowed, but altogether in faihion among them, moft 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 luffering any mar- 

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



Here our Author hath inferted a Difcourfe concerning dhers odd y 

 And fome barbarous Cujiomes Ibhich have long prevailed among the 

 Nagoy Tartars, and wherewith they ibill not eafily Dijpence. (But 

 they giving little light unto Hiftory or Geography, I have not thought 

 them "Worthy the trouble of tranfcribing ; ncr do I apprehend they would 

 afford any confiderahle inflruBion or àiMertifement unto the Reader. 



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

 their Houfes from place to place in Waggons with 4 Wheels, which are drawn ufually 

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

 is from the Volga unto Buskgrvfhakg'-, thence to Vorojïdne, Samara, Eirgeeffe, Eijhene, 

 Ougogura, Reimpeska, and all along under the Calmukgs Country, untill they arrive a"t 

 the Jaicl^ov Teike: Sometimes they pafs by Caffoone, Aurrore, Canwyes Samar, and fo 

 to Saraichika : This is ordinarily their Summer Progrefs. Agairift Winter they return 

 unto thofe parts of the Country which border Upon the Caffian Sea. As Bakjakç upon 

 the Cajfian Sea i Beallnfla, Kitgacb, Sheennamara, Coudake, Caradowan, A€tabon\ and 

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

 Rivers among the Reeds and Woods, or wherefoever they find the Climate molt 

 mild and beft Defence againft the Cold, which in the Winter is in thefe Parts exr 

 tremely fevere •■, fo that 'tis. hard to determine whether they fuffer more from the Heat 

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

 or Horfes, and moft of their greater Cattle to Ihift for themfelves in the Deferts. m 



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Having had often occafion to mention the River Jaickç or T«j^, I (hall here give a 

 ftiort account of what I have obferved and learnt concerning its Rife and Courfè. It 

 comes from the Calmnkçs 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 

 alfo inhabited if not pofTefled by the Kalmukes, fome of whole V tuff es or Hords\are 

 fubject unto the Mujcovites -, others in League with them : but they have fometimes 

 cruel Wars, and did formerly deftroy Tumen with lbme other Towns and Caftles of 

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

 unto the Courfc of the teik^ after it hath palfed through the Calmukgs Country, it 

 divides the Great Nagoy from Cafficby Horda, and after it hath pa/Ted in all a Thou-î 

 fand miles, throwes it felf into the Cajfian Sea a little below Seraichikf' This is a ve- 

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

 forts of Herbs and wild Fruits, and the Water full of good Filh ■■> which Convenient 

 ces do oft-times invite the Ciffacks to make their abode there, and from thence they 

 Biake Incuriions on divers parts bordering on the Caftian Sea. This River, among 



divers 



