Some Of These Are Easily Taken To Pieces
Or Put Together, And Are Carried On Sumpter-Cattle; While Others Are Not
Capable Of Being Taken To Pieces, And Are Carried On Carts.
Wherever they
go, whether to war, or only travelling to fresh pastures, these are carried
with them.
They have vast numbers of camels, oxen, sheep, and goats, and
such prodigious multitudes of horses and mares, as are not to be found in
all the rest of the world; but they have no swine. Their emperor, dukes,
and other nobles, are extremely rich in gold and silver, silks, and gems.
They eat of every thing that is eatable, and we have even seen them eat
vermin. They drink milk in great quantity, and particularly prefer that of
mares. But as in winter, none but the rich can have mares milk, they make a
drink of millet boiled in water; every one drinking one or two cups in the
morning, and sometimes having no other food all day; but in the evening,
every one has a small quantity of flesh, and they drink the broth in which
it was boiled. In summer, when they have abundance of mares milk, they eat
little flesh, unless it is given them, or when they catch venison or birds.
SECTION V.
Of their Good and Bad Customs.
[Illustration: Map of the Western part of Tartary & Adjacent Countries]
Some of their customs are commendable, and others execrable. They are more
obedient to their lords than any other people, giving them vast reverence,
and never deceiving them in word or action.
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