95a E, Ysbrants iDEs’i ’Travels Book lil. 
Century ; with fome very impartial as well as judicious Remarks on 
the Temper, Genius, and boafted Oeconomy of that famous Na- 
tion ; with a free Cenfure of thofe Hyperbolical Panegyrics, that have 
been beftowed on the Progrefs of Science amono-ff them. 
Being the Conclufion of his Excellency Everard Ys b r an t s Id e s s, Travels by Land 
from Mufcovy to China, and of his Return from thence. 
I . The Authors Account of Siberia, the Extent and Situation of that Country^ the Motives that led him to 
think of making a Map of it, the Methods ufed by him for that Purpofe, and the Rejiilt of bis Pams 
upon this Subjedi, 2, The Country oj the Samojedes defcribed, with an Account of this Nation, their 
Food, Carriages, Government, Arms, Religion, Marriages, Poetry and jirgng Di/poftion to Magick^ 
3. An exaB and excellent Defer iption of the Streights Weygats, how far they are navigable, the 
Ruffian Fijhery in them. Privileges that Nation formerly enjoyed, which are now taken away. 4. An 
ample and curious Defeription of the Mountain of Pojas, or Back of the fVorld : Of the South Bounda- 
ries of Siberia, and of its principal Rivers, viz. the Jaka, the Tobol, the Oby, the Jenizea, and the 
Selinga. 5. The Source of the River Defeription of the Uffinian Tartars, and their Neighbours, 
the Nature and Produce of their Countries, the Stature, and Compledlion, Habits, Language, and Reli- 
gion of thefe People. 6. Of the Kalmucks or Kalmacks, who inhabit between the Tobol and the Oby. 
'The Lake ^ jamufehov/a, famous for the excellent Salt it produces. Lhe Country of Barabinly, its Na- 
ture and Produce, the People that inhabit it, their Manners, Cufloms, Arms, Government, Religion, 
and Trade, y. Of the famous Town of Tomikoy, its Inhabitants and Commerce, ^of the fhort Route 
from thence to China, and a concife Account of the Country between this City and that of Jenizejfkoi 
8. Of the Country of the Kirgifes, the Hiflory of that People, and of their Neighbours : Of the frontier 
Places belonging to the Mongals, with an Account of the three Princes by whom they are governed, g. 
Of the CounUy about the Cajile of Argum, of the People who inhabit thefe Parts, and of the River 
Gorbifa,‘ which feparates the Dominions of the Czar from thofe of the Emperor of China. 10- Of 
the Rivers Tugur and Uda, and of the Inhabitants of certain Ifands that come thither to trade, ex- 
tremely curious, and which occur in no other Author. 1 1. The City of Kamfatka deferibed, with an 
Account of its Inhabitants, the Climate about the Icy-Cape, the Fifh taken there ; the Manner in which 
the People live under Ground, and of the vafi Mountains of Ice in the Sea. 12. Of the River Lena, 
and the City of Jekutlkoi, Capital of the Northern Parts of Siberia, the Fifhery there, the Nations that 
inhabit on the Side of this River, their Cufoms, Religions, Habits and Language. Of a certain Ido- 
latrous Nation in thefe Parts. A Defeription of other Rivers that arife in this Country, and of the 
Lands they water. 13. A Defeription of the City of Wergolenlkoi, the fruitful and pie af ant Country 
about it : An Account of the River Jenizea from its Source to its Mouth, with a Defeription of the 
People that inhabit the Banks of that and other Rivers. 14. fuccinfl but curious and exaff Deferip- 
tion of China, with Remarks on the Genius, Temper and Dijpofition of the People. 1 5. Of the Au- 
thor s Converfations with them, in Reference to religious and philofophic'al Subjetls ; with other curious 
Particulars. 1 6. The Author s Sentiments with Refpefl to the high Notions that have been entertained 
in Europe, of the Wifdom, Learning, Policy, Arts and ManufaBures of this Nation, ly. Obferva- 
tions Hiforical, Political, and Critical upon the foregoing SeBion. 
^HE great Value of thefe Travels arifes 
S from their Piainnefs, Perfpicuicy, and ap- 
8 parent Veracity j for it is eafy to fee that 
y«L- our Author had a true German Sincerity, 
and was far from allowing his Imagination to co-operate 
with his Judgment in the Compofition of this Work ; 
what he faw with his Eyes, he has faithfully fet down 
with his Pen, without Increment, without Diminution. 
But upon his Return to Mufcovy, and communicating 
his Journal of his Travels, many Queflions were ask- 
ed him, and many Inquiries made, from which he was 
convinced, that a molt ufeful and entertaining Supple- 
ment might be added to his Work •, and this it was that 
put him upon writing what compofes this Sedlion. It 
had been a very eafy Thing for him, by digefting his 
Travels afrefh, to have brought all his Obfervations and 
Remarks into their proper Places ; and this, without 
Doubt, would have render’d his Performance more ele- 
gant, at leaft if not more ufeful. His Love for Truth, 
however, was fo great, that he refolved Things fliould 
appear as they really were, and inflead of taking that 
Step, has given us his additional Remarks in that Order 
to which he was diredled by the above-mentioned En- 
quiries ; by this Means he was obliged to retrace his 
whole Journey, which however he has done in fuch a 
Manner, as to mention little or nothing that he had 
given us before, and has taken fuch a Method, as will 
enable every attentive Reader to become abfolutely ac- 
quainted with this great Country never deferibed before, 
and of which all Deferiptions that have been made fince 
fall very far fhort of his. Thus much I thought necef- 
fary to premife, without taking away any Part of his 
own Introduction, becaufe I thought it but juft to ac- 
quaint the Publick with this Author’s real Merit, which 
in Point of Accuracy and Regard to Truth, I look upon 
as fuperior to moft, and not inferior to any j and I 
perfwade my felf, when he has perufed it, that the 
Reader will be entirely of my Opinion, and will only 
regret, that in Collections of this Nature, fo few Pieces 
of this Kind can be inferted. 
In the paft Relation of our Travels, folely aiming at 
Truth, we have reprefented her naked, without any hy- 
perbolical or ornamental Illuftrations to render her the 
more agreeable and furprifing, according to the common 
Practice of Writers of Travels, who magnify Trifles, 
and croud in various Particulars on the uncertain Reports ' 
of others, in order to furbifh up the Book. This is in- 
deed what I have all along carefully avoided in the De- 
feription of my Journey •, but finding I have not been 
fo methodical as 1 could have wifhed ; that I have omit- 
ted fome Particulars worth the Reader’s Cognizance, or 
at leaft not related them as they ought *, tor the firft I 
beg Pardon, and fhall endeavour to make fome fmali 
Amends for the latter by a fhort Review. 
'My Travels then were through the whole Provinces of 
Siberia and Bauur •, the Towns, Countries, and Rivers 
of which that I have pafTed through, or over, are alrea- 
dy exactly deferib’d. The Courfe of our Journey was from 
the 
