'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎132] (173/1024)

The Persian Travels Book III.
CHAP. XIII.
Of the leffer Tartars, call'd Nogales, bor dying upon Co
mania.
T H E leffer tartars have a very ancient race of Horfes, which they breed
up even to Superftition *, fo that it would be among them an ad 0 (
Sacriledge to fell them to ftrangers, as being not a little curious
how they fell them to one another. Thefe are the Horfes which they
ride, fifty or fixty in a Troop together when they go a thieving i and fometirnes
a hunder’d together, when they defign any Incurfion upon their Enemies. When
the old Men come to be infirm and impotent, if they know any ftout young Man
that is a'Souldier, they will lend him one of their Horfes (if he have none of his
own) to make an Incurfion, upon condition to have half of the Booty. Many
times they run up as far as Hungary, near to Comoro, and Javarin. Thefe Horfes,
partly by nature, partly by early cuftom, will travel four or five days together
with a handful of Grafs giv’n them once in eight or ten hours, and a little Water
every four and twenty hours. But they never go a robbing with them ’till they
come to be (even or eight years old: befides that, they muff undergo a very
fevere education ere they make ufe of them in thofe hardfhips. ^ Their Bit is only
apieceoflroti with a Buckle on each fide, to which they faft’n the Bridle and
Head-ftall. For eight days together they put under the Saddle a bag of Gravel
or Earth. The firft day the Sack is a Horfe-man’s weight i and fo they add toit
every day, ’till it come to be double the weight at the end of the eight days. As
they increafe every day the weight upon the Horfes back, they abate every day
the Horfe’s Provender and Drink. During thefe eight days, they get up and walk
the Horfe two or three Leagues. The next eight days, they abate every day of
the weight, ’till the Sack be quite empty. Proportionably alfo they abate him of
his Meat and Drink as in the firft eight days, and every day take up the Girt
a hole fhorter. The three or four lalt days they afford the Horfe neither Proven
der nor Drink, according as they find him able to endure hunger and thifif and
the labour which he is to undergo. The laft day, they work him ’till he be all over
of a Sweats then they unbridle and unfaddle him, and pour upon him the coldeft
Water they can meet with. That done, they lead him into a field, and tyehim
by the leg with a Cord, at fuch a length as they intend he fhall feed j yet ftill from
day to day allowing him more Rope, ’till at laft they let him loofe, and feed with
the reft of the Horfes. Thi« terrible faftingand labour, during which time, that
little which they do eat and drink, they eat and drink with the Bit in their mouth,
brings them to be fo lean and out of flefh, that their very bones are ready to hart
out of their skins: So that if any one fhould fee them in that miferable condition,
that does not know the nature of the Horfes, would think they would never be fit
for good fervice. The hoofs of thefe Horfes are fo hard that they never fhoe
them, and yet they will leave the prints of their feet in the Earth* or upon the ice,
as if they had been fhod. Thefe tartars are fo curious in having Horfes that will
endure labour, that fo foon as they fee any handfom Colt in their Breed,
prefently take him up, to fchool him as I have related ; but hardly ten in titty enduie
the tutoring.
As for their Diet, ’tis a great advantage for thefe tartars to ride a Mare, in
regard they Drink the Milk. They that ride Horfes, carry along with them a
little Bag full of pieces of Cheefe dry’d in the Sun •, they have alfo a fmall %onck
of Goat-skin, which they fill with Water where they meet with if, intowhkh
they put two or three bits of their hard Cheefe, which foftens with the motion oi
the Horfe, the Boracho being ty’d under his Belly: and thus the vVater bccon^
a kind of fowr Milk, which is their ordinary Drink.q
As for their Inftruments of Cookery, every Horfe-man has a large wooden Lad*-
hanging at the Pummel of his Saddle, out of which the rider drinks hirnfeli, and gi u *
his Horfe likewife to drink. They that encounter them, can hope for no better