_The_ Turks _diet; the Slaves diet; the attire of the_ Tartars; _and
manner of Wars and Religions, &c._
{MN-1} The _Tymor_ and his Friends fed upon Pillaw, which is, boiled Rice
and Garnances with little bits of Mutton or Buckones, which is Roasted
pieces of Horse, Bull, Ulgrie, or any Beasts. Samboyses and Muselbit are
great Dainties, and yet but round Pies, full of all sorts of Flesh, they
can get chopped with variety of Herbs. Their best Drink is Coffee, of a
grain they call _Coava,_ boiled with Water; and _Sherbeck,_ which is only
Honey and Water; Mares Milk, or the Milk of any Beast, they hold
restorative: but all the Commonalty drink pure Water. {MN-2} Their Bread
is made of this _Coava,_ which is a kind of black Wheat, and Cuskus a
small white Seed, like _Millia_ in _Biskay:_ But our common Victuals, the
entrails of Horse and Ulgries; of this cut in small pieces, they will fill
a great Cauldron, and being boiled with _Cuskus,_ and put in great Bowls
in the form of Chaffing-dishes, they sit round about it on the Ground,
after they have raked it thorow, so oft as they please with their foul
Fists, the remainder was for the _Christian_ Slaves. Some of this Broth,
they would temper with _Cuskus_ pounded, and putting the Fire off from the
Hearth, pour there a Bowl full, then cover it with Coals till it be baked,
which stewed with the remainder of the Broth, and some small pieces of
Flesh, was an extraordinary Dainty.
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{MN-1} _The_ Tymor's _Diet of_ Cambia, _is as the_ Turks.
{MN-2} _The Slaves Diet._
{MN} The better sort are attired like _Turks,_ but the plain _Tartar_ hath
a black Sheeps-skin over his back, and two of the Legs tied about his
Neck; the other two about his middle, with another over his Belly, and the
Legs tied in like manner behind him: Then two more, made like a pair of
Bases, serveth him for Breeches; with a little close Cap to his Skull of
black Felt, and they use exceeding much of this Felt for Carpets, for
Bedding, for Coats, and Idols. Their Houses are much worse than your
_Irish,_ but the In-land Countries have none but Carts and Tents, which
they ever remove from Countrey to Countrey, as they see occasion, driving
with them infinite Troops of black Sheep, Cattel and Ulgries, eating all
up before them as they go.
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{MN} _The attire of those_ Tartars.
{MN} For the _Tartars_ of _Nagi,_ they have neither Town, nor House, Corn,
nor Drink, but Flesh and Milk. The Milk they keep in great Skins like
_Burracho's,_ which though it be never so sower, it agreeth well with
their strong Stomachs. They live all in _Hordias,_ as doth the
_Crim-Tartars,_ three or four hundred in a Company, in great Carts fifteen
or sixteen foot broad, which are covered with small Rods, wattled together
in the form of a Bird's Nest, turned upwards, and with the Ashes of Bones,
temper'd with Oil, Camels Hair, and a Clay they have, they loam them so
well, that no Weather can pierce them, and yet very light. Each _Hordia_
hath a _Murse,_ which they obey as their King. Their Gods are infinite.
One or two thousand of those glittering white Carts drawn with Camels,
Deer, Bulls, and Ulgries, they bring round in a Ring, where they pitch
their Camp; and the _Murse,_ with his chief Alliances, are placed in the
midst. They do much hurt, when they can get any _Stroggs,_ which are great
Boats used up on the River _Volga,_ (which they call _Edle_) to them that
dwell in the Countrey of _Perolog,_ and would do much more, were it not
for the _Muscovites_ Garrisons that there Inhabit.
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{MN} _The_ Tartars _of_ Nagi _and their manners._
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