'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.' [‎107] (656/1024)

upon the Euxine and Caipian Seas.
proceeding f rom the heat of the Sun, which is in thefe Parts fome Months of the
Year much more exceltive than one would expeft from the Climate. And befidcs
their Children go dark naked during the great heats in Summer, It is alfo re
markable, That the Cold in Winter in the lame Country is exceeding fevere- and
one would think to them who have fuch mean accommodation, intollerable Thefe
mgey tartars have great flore of Cattle, as Kine, Sheep, Horfes and Camels and
yet notwithftanding they are very ill clad, mod of their Cloathina bdng Sheen
Skins, and thofc but fairvily dreffed. They have no fort of Corn or Grain
mightily [corning the Etm^and Pecans, whofc chief Diet they fey is the ton
of a pitiful weed. Pchgamy ts not only allowed, but altogether in fafhion among
diem, mod having divers Wives, more or fewer according unto their Qualkvand
Ab,hty ; who unlels they are Captivated by War, are fuch as they buy o^thed
Parents or Kindred for Cattle. If one Brother dye, the other takes all hi Wives!
who are ulually five or fix. But if all the Brothers die,either in War or by Difeafe
then they are devolved like otlier Goods or Chattels unto the Elder BrXr’s Son
they never differing any married Woman, during life, to go out of the Kindred. ’
Here our Author hath inferted a Difcourfe concerning divers odd
and fome barbarous Cuftoms which haw Jong prevailed among the
Nagoy-Tartars, and wherewith they will not eafilyDiffence. ^ But
they giving little light untoHijlory or Geography, I have not thought
them worthy the trouble oftranferibing nor do I apprehend they would
afford any confiderable infiruHion or divertifement unto the Reader.
,w u fe ° f , the Gre f when they remove their habitation, tranfport
their Houfes from place to place in Waggons with four Wheels, which are drawn
.dually by Camels; they pafsup and down the Country in great Hords, their ordinary
march is fi om the Volga unto Buskstvjhafy ; thence to Voroflane, Semara, Eirgeeffe, Eithel
rfff’ Remtpeska and all along under the Country, until they arrive at
ne >ckor teikf. Sometimes they pafs by Caff m ,e, A«rrm, Camyu Samar, andfo
0 Sjr f co >k} ■ this is ordinarily their Summer Progrels. Againft Winter they return
5 n , . ( ,?rT 0 '< ; ‘ l ’ C R°T‘; y 'f 1 “ Ch f 0 rf er "f 0 " thc C 4 "
ami S | ta tCggacb, Sbeemamara, Coudakg, Caradowan, Attabmr
and higher upon the fcattenng themfelves upon the Sea-fhore and Banks of
tnc Kivcis among the Reeds and Woods, or wherefoever they find the Climate
moft mild and beft defence againft the Cold, which in the Winter is in thefe Parts
th?& c eVer4i foch ^ to determine whether theyfuffer more from
hnV w m ? L,m, ^ r V° 1 ' ^ 111 Winter. _ During which latter Seafon they leave
inthc^dciB° r H ° rfCS> and m ° ft ° f their 8reaKr Cattle t0 ^ for themfelvcs
often had occafion to mention the River Jakke or Trike, I fhall here give a
' u Accoi| nt of what I have obferved and learnt concerning its Rife and Courfe. It
wnes ftom the Caimans Land, where it is thought to fpring ; though fome of the
alfnTnL v 1 ? v OLlnra 15 s / ^ r I e , rno J* e ^ cmote ln Siberia, the Southern parts of which is
f„ J b,ted u lf "?t Paired by the Kalmar, fome of whofc Vluffs or Hords are
cruel wT the Mufcmte , 5 others in League with them: but they have fometimes
tin- p )r ’ a , nc f 11 forma ', 1 y tfehroy tumen with fome other Towns and Caftles of
vnrdliff r th /'Y a PP rehen dcd did indroach too faff upon them. But to return
divkl^ri./r' 1 ' 4 after it hath palled through the Calmukes Country, it
fand m l Gl i cat r r ?, m . CaffacbyHorda, and after it hath paffed in all a Thou-
Verv ll ? 1 D • brOWS j 1 C / e ! into the Cajpian Sea a little below SeraicbiL. This is a
*y lv er,and the Land on each fide well cloathed with Wood,Graft, divers
S donfr erbs and w,ld F run b and the Watcr full of good Fife; whichConvenien-
tmke T, ll, , 11CS invUL ' t ‘ ie Coffacks to make their abode there, and from thence they
■ “unions on divers parts bordering on the Caftan Sea, This River, among
(P) divers