particular Friend, to excule us for tlie time to come, from 
thefe long Journies, and efpecially me, who am not of m 
Age /f> for it : I tryed to obtain at leaft that they would be 
contented to take only one of us ; the Letters of our Fathers 
were daily brought us during the Journy , and I had the 
convenience of writing to them, by means of the Curriers 
which continually wentto and came from the Royal City : 
I write all this in haft, that ! may continue to give you an 
Account of our Affairs. : ^ 
Jn Exptanation^^ to juflify the Geography 
: : i jkppofed in thefe Letters. 
IT may feeiH^^cffidirful,- that the AHIfior of thefe Letters 
nrfakes menticJrt in his former -of a kiiid of Warr betweeri 
the Orient d Tartars znd tho Mofcovites, notwithftanding the 
extream diftance,thefe\People appear to be from one another 
in our Geographicai Charl§;biat tliofe who know how much 
the Mofcovites have extended the Bounds of the Emf ite along 
^^^^m^^M #iiJitudg6 thethteglef^iffi befides 
^tWfe wholkvel^^^ fhefeCountrys,' have made Difcoverics 
much differing from' thofe' ^vhich oiir ^^^r^^^^ri have in- 
forihed ijs^of '-liit^^t^e^^ ^^ry' latcly'Mj/^j&'^r j^rr^, '\vho 
&jMr^^%PS E0^^^^ haviifgTefv^'d -M 
^Pe?/^-^4';aad' haviiigibe^ of a Place to- 
^ix^Mofc^ji the M?/rf?'Z;'^#^ their r^turne 
having pafTed by him^ and being by him; treated' ih fii<::Ii' 
a^pfeiMii^^astl^ Humor^; ohfe of 
thcfri fK§#^d^liilTi a (iMrt df the Cduntrys between- 
-t^ dnd C^>>^ : arid told him, th^ from i Citys which he 
'^liewed him, whofe Names were L^?//?/^, Abafmko^ Nerginf- 
ko^ SiW J under'^ the Government of the great Dukes, tho' 
Situated in thd grea:t'inrr^k;^^ there vvas 'Way lo P^y^v^, 
which 
