Book IH. 
CHAPTER III. 
C 
A Defcriptlon of the North-B.afl Parts of -^4fiay and the extenfive 
Empire of China, with the Countries dependent thereon, and the 
Manners and Cuftoms of the feveral Nations that inhabit them. 
SECTION I. 
The Travels of his Excellency E. Ysbrants Ides, Ambaflador from Peter the 
Great to the Emperor of China^ through Great UJliga^ Siriana^ Permia^ Siberia^ 
*J)aour^ &c. to the Frontiers of China \ containing an exad; Defcription of the Ex- 
tent and Limits of thofe Countries, the Nations by which they are inhabited ; 
with a curious and copious Account of their Religion, Government, Marriages, 
Dwellings, Diet, daily Occupations, 
Faithfully tranfated from the Author s Original fournal^ printed under the Direc- 
tion of the Burgo-mafer Witzen, the greatef Critick of his Time in Holland, and 
dedicated to the late Czar Peter the Great. 
I. An IntroduBory Account of the Author, and of the CharaBer and Credit of his Work-, with the Rea- 
fons for infertmg it in this CoJleBion, 2. Phe Manner of his fetting out from Mofcow ; his Voyage 
down the Dwina, with a curious Account of the Inhabitants of the Province ^'Sirene. 3. His 
PafJ age from thence to Solikamskoi, with a large Account of the Salt-works in the Neighbourhood f that 
City. 4. I’he Author enters Afia, and vifits the Country of the Wogulski Tartars, whofe Manners and 
Cuftoms he defcribes. 5. Phat SiibjeB continued and concluded. 6. He continues his fourney through the 
Coufitry of Tumeen, the Woods of which abound with a Kind of Aiiimal that furmjh the richejt Furs 
in Ruffia. 7. A Defcription of the City of Tobolesk, the Extent of the Country of Siberia, and the 
Manner in which it was reduced under the Power of the Ruffians. 8. The River Irtis defcribed ; the 
Manner of training Dogs to draw Sledges, a?2d a Defcription of that Kind of Carriage over the Snow. 
9. fhe Author's Arrival at the City of Suxgnt ', an Account of the adjacent Country and of the Foxes, 
Beavers, and other wild Beafts. 10. fhe Courfe of the River Oby dejcribed an Account of the ORi- 
acks who inhabit its Banks, their Cuftoms and Manner of Living. 1 1 . Fhe Author vifits one of their 
Princes, and gives a large Detail of the mifer able State of him and his Family. 12. The difficult and 
dangerous Paffiage of the River Keta, and the extraordinary Risk the Author ran of per jfiing thereon. 
13. Avery copious and curious Relation of the Maimer of finding Mammut’.y Teeth, with ConjeBures 
concerning the Nature of that Beaft, which is invifible during its Life-time. 14. An Account of the 
Skammanskoy or Negromantick Water-Fall, and of the Manner in which Ships pafs down and are towed 
up it. 15* Our Author makes a Vifit to the Schaman or Necromancer j a large Account of him, and 
of the Methods he makes ufe of in deceiving the Tungufians, with a Detail of the Manners and Cuftoms 
of thefe People. 16. Tloe Author s Arrival at Buratskoy j the Burattians, a Pagan People defcribed, and 
a particular Account of their ftrange Ways of Living, ij. A very large and diftinB Account of the 
Yeliiam or Musk-goat, with the dffierent Manners ufed in preparing that rich Perfume. 18. An 
Account of the Lake of Baikol, and a fmgular Inftance of the Author s good Senfe and Courage. 19. He 
continues his Journey to the City of Telimba ; his Adventures in that Journey, with an Account of the 
Country he travelled through, and the People he met with. 20. His Journey to, and a Defcription of 
the City o/‘ Nerzinskoy, the adjacent Territories defcribed, as alfo the two Nations of Tungufians, their 
brutal Manners and barbarous Cuftoms. 2 i. Our Author proceeds to the utmofi Limits of the Ruffian 
Dominions in Alia ; of the Frontiers of which Empire he gives a very curious and copious Defcription. 
F T E R giving an Acconut of the Perftan 
Empire, it was requifite, that as we had 
defcribed that of the Mogul in the former 
Volume, and given the Succeffion of Prin- 
ces down to our Times, to proceed to the fourth great 
Sovereignty of 4fia, the moft extenfive and moft cele- 
brated Empire of China, But at the fame Time we 
had this in View, it feemed alfo no lefs requifite to give 
fome Account of the Countries that lie between Ruffia 
and Perfta, and the Frontiers of that vaft Empire, the 
Omiffion of which would have left a great Parc of Afia 
unfurvey’d. In order to attain this End, there feemed 
to 
