Produced by Karl Hagen, Juliet Sutherland, and the Online Distributed Proofreading team. ** Transcriber's Notes ** The printed edition from which this e-text has been produced retains the spelling and abreviations of Hakluyt's 16th-century original. In this version, the spelling has been retained, but the following manuscript abbreviations have been silently expanded: - vowels with macrons = vowel + 'n' or 'm' - q; = -que (in the Latin) - y[e] = the; y[t] = that; w[t] = with This edition contains footnotes and two types of sidenotes. Most footnotes are added by the editor. They follow modern (19th-century) spelling conventions. Those that don't are Hakluyt's (and are not always systematically marked as such by the editor). The sidenotes are Hakluyt's own. Summarizing sidenotes are labelled [Sidenote: ] and placed before the sentence to which they apply. Sidenotes that are keyed with a symbol are labeled [Marginal note: ] and placed at the point of the symbol, except in poetry, where they are moved to the nearest convenient break in the text. ** End Transcriber's Notes ** THE PRINCIPAL Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, AND Discoveries OF The English Nation. Collected by RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER, AND Edited by EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S. VOL. II. NORTHEASTERN EUROPE, AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES. Part I. TARTARY. THE PRINCIPAL Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, AND Discoveries OF The English Nation. Collected by RICHARD HAKLUYT, PREACHER, AND Edited by EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S. EASTERN EUROPE AND THE MUSCOVY COMPANY. Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries in EASTERN EUROPE Part of an Epistle written by one Yuo of Narbona vnto the Archbishop of Burdeaux, containing the confession of an Englishman as touching the barbarous demeanour of the Tartars, which had liued long among them, and was drawen along perforce with them in their expedition against Hungarie: Recorded by Mathew Paris in the yere of your Lord 1243.