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together, agreed to make fome kind of fubmiffion, and lue for pardon and peace. 

 Whereupon they fent AmbafTadors unto Tumeine, where the Ruffe Army was encamp- 

 ed \ and after a Treaty with the Czars Plenipotentiaries, they agreed upon thete Ar- 

 ticles, That the Comukgs ftiould reftore the Towns they had taken, and aid the Empe- 

 reur with fuch a number of Souldiers, as he (hould require, againft any Enemy what- 

 foever ■■> whereunto their Heads being fworn, they have inviolably obferved the Agree- 

 ment unto this day. But it's time we take our leave of Gildar, Prince of Terki, and 

 his Comukgs, and proceed into Sbercaffèn Land, part of which, as I hinted before, lyes 

 upon the Black Sea, and extends it felf unto the Cajpian. 



This fide of Circajfta which borders upon the Cajpian Sea, is a very plentiful Coun- 

 trey -, and as for Filh, it is fo wonderfully plentiful, that in Tumeine you may ordina- 

 rily purchafe a good Sturgeon for two pence, and fometimes for a penny -, a moft pro- 

 digious quantity of Filh being taken in the River of the IVeefira, and about the. Ifland 

 of Cbekeine, which is off at Sea not far from Tumeine. On the main Land, over 

 againft this Fifhery, 4 miles above the River otTerike, there is a great Well, made by 

 a Spring, which falls from a Rock, on the fide of a great Hill, and immediately fills 

 this little Lake,which whether it is Natural or Artificial, I know not. The Water of 

 this Lake is fo fcalding hot, that the Fifhers flinging in their Sturgeon or other Filh, it 

 is in a Ihort time boykd, as if over a fire, the heat being fo intenfe, that no Man can 

 detain his Hand in it for a moment =, from which ftrange Quality it derives its Namej, 

 being called by the Ruffes, Coracha Colloda, or the Scalding Well. 



I (hall conclude my Difcourfe with a fhort Account of the Little Nagoy, or of that 

 part thereof which confines upon the Cajpian \ for all that fpace between Tumeine and 

 Ajiracan, is by many afcribed unto the Nagoy Tartars. I did before declare, That the 

 Little Nagoy is for the moft part a wide wafte Defart, the worft of which is all that 

 Trad which lyeth between Tumeine and Ajiracan. Thefe Tartars have no Town but 

 only Affhowa, which is not properly theirs, though lying in their Countrey, being 

 poflefled by the Turks. 



There is a fort of People in this Countrey, whom the Tartars call Sigakes ■■, I could 

 never learn what their Language is, or from what Place or Nation they proceed h nor 

 could I underftand after what manner they live, whether they have any Religion, or 

 Civil Government. Their chief Subfiftence is what they gain from the Tartars -, for 

 they gather fometimes 2 or 3000, and rob the fmallerHords of the Tartars, and thofe 

 which are moft remote from help. But fometimes the Tartars difcovering the place of 

 their Retreat or Rendevous, furround them with their Carts, and then fall in, cut 

 them all off, never giving Quarter unto any no Crime being fo îevereîy punifhed 

 amongft the Tartars as Thievery =, which makes me apprehend, that thefe Sigahgs are 

 fome of their own People, who formerly deferted them upon fome extraordinary oc- 

 calion : But whatibever is the reafon , they do moft irreconcileably hate each the 

 other. 



The moft noted Places on that fide the Little Nagoy, which regards the Cajpian Sea,' 

 and lye all along the Coaft from Tumeine to Ajiracan, are Sbeerlona Teare ( where I 

 was firft taken Prifoner by the Tartars ) Peremet}y> ArfiBafh, Moyackge, Bealla Opera 

 Bajbmacbakg , Kaboylly Macbakofskg , Cbojhveay , and fo over the Volga- unto 

 Aftracart. 



And to conclude all, I (hall here enumerate all the Places on the Coaft near Afira" 

 can, which have Names that are conliderable for Havens, Trade, Fifhing, or any other 

 remarkable Circumftance. Soteeza Bockgra, V onflow a Coffa, Beerulska Coffa, Ewan- 

 ftjoska Coffa, Seamme Bogoroffe, Tuffocleoff Lapateene, Cbaska Coffa, Crofna Bogore, Cocke 

 louska Coffa, Orvarska Coffa, Ccmafhaskg Coffa, Colloberinska Coffa, Cocktaboup, Buffans- 

 ka Lapaten, Kara Buffan -, which laft place is not far from Sbeene Mare, which I have 

 formerly mentioned. 



I cannot fo exactly tell the Circumference of the Cajpian, as of the Black Sea, ha- 

 ving been only on the North and Weft fide \ but howfoever I lhall from what I have 

 (êen and learnt from Experienced perfons, be enabled to approach very near unto the 

 Truth. 



The Diftance between Ajiracan and the Jaick^ is 500 miles s from thence unto the 

 Confines of Bocbara 500 miles: From Jaxartes to Perfta 3 and thence unto Gilan is, ac- 

 cording unto my Information, noomiies. From Gilan unto Koifa 500 miles : From 



(Qj2) " thence 



