12 Tribes

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<li>The Chrime-Tartars, which most infesteth the Russe Borders, for which respect the chief leaders of this Tribe, whom they call Mor∣soyes, or Divoi-Morsoyes receive their pension from the Russe, not to invade or hurt their Country. 2. The Second is the Cheremissim. 3. The Third is the Morduit-Tartar. 4. The Fourth is the Nagay; where∣of the one is the warlikest People, the other is the cruellest, and most laborious of all the rest. The Fifth is the Sebair, whence the Siberes, or Siberians, who dwell by the Ri∣ver Obba, derive their Pedigree, and are therefore reckoned and an∣numbred to this Tribe. 6. The sixth is the Mecrite-Hoord. 7. The se∣venth is the Shalcan. 8. The eighth is the Chercassey; the most civil Tartar of all the rest, of a comely person, and much affected to be like the Lachish or Polonian, in his ha∣bit, gesture, and whole behaviour; by means whereof some number of them have of late received the Chri∣stian Page &nbsp;18 faith. 9. The ninth is the Cassach. 10. The tenth and last is crlled Turkestan, which imports as muck as [Herdman Tartar] by an 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 because this Hoord is the greatest Herd-master and Cattle∣breeder above all the rest; from whom the Turks had their begining,* as saith the Russe. And that this is true besides the report of the Russe People, and other Borderers, who have best cause to know their Pe∣digree, it is the opinion of all the Historians, who lived about the time, when the Turkish Nation invaded the upper Asia, and began to grow a great and mighty Monarchy. A∣mong the rest, it shall not be idle nor impertinent to report here what Leanicus Chalcocondilos the Atheni∣an briefly writes in the beginning of his Story, touching the Origine of the Turks.*</li>

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