Saint Maria

{Iliad 2. 869.) Nagay (Mangat). Moscovia (1) 8. 471, 475. The country northeast of the Caspian Sea, as represented, for example, on Mercat or’s map of Tartar i a. Jenkinson describes “Thus pro… we pa ed by a goodly river called Cama, as follows his voyage down the Volga from Cazan: ceeding forward which we left on our left hand. This river falleth out of the country of Permia into the river of Volga, and is from Cazan and all the land on the left hand of the said 15 leagues: Volga from the said river unto A str a can, and so following the North and Northeast side of the Caspian sea, to a land of the Tartars called Turkemen, is called the countrey of Mangat or Nagay, whose inhabitants are of the law of Mahomet. The Nagayans when they flourished lived in this maner: they were divided into divers companies called Hords, and every Hord had a ruler, whom they obeyed as their king, and was Towne or house they had none, but lived in the called a Murse. open fields, every Murse or King having his Hords or people.....,: about him, with their wives, children and cattell, who having consumed the pasture in one place, remooved unto another.... They deHght in no art or science, except the warres, wherein they are expert, but for the most part they be pasturing people, All and have great store of cattel, which is all their riches. the countrey upon our right hand the river Volga, from over against the river Cama unto the towne of A str a can, is the land of Crimme, whose inhabitants be also of the lawe of Mahomet, and live for the most part according to the fashions of the Nagayes, having continual war with the Emperour of Ru ia, and are valiant in the fielde, having countenance, and support from the great Turke.” (Hak. 1. 325.) Cf. P. L. 10. 431.. ch210.xhtml n 216