{MN} Ten, or fifteen thousand, he commonly placeth, where he findeth most convenient for his standing Camp; the rest of his Army he divides in several Troops, bearing ten or twelve Miles square before them, and ever within three or four days return to their Camp, putting all to Fire and Sword, but that they carry with them back to their Camp; and in this scattering manner he will invade a Country, and be gone with his Prey, with an incredible Expedition. But if he understand of an Enemy, he will either fight in Ambuscado, or flie; for he will never fight any Battel if he can chuse, but upon treble advantage; yet by his innumerable flights of Arrows, I have seen flie from his flying Troops, we could not well judge, whether his fighting or flying was most dangerous, so good is his Horse, and so expert his Bow-men; but if they be so intangled they must fight, there is none can be more hardy, or resolute in their defences. * * * * * {MN} _The manner of his Wars._ {MN} Regaining his own Borders, he takes the tenth of the principal Captives, Man, Woman, Child, or Beast (but his Captains that take them, will accept of some particular Person they best like for themselves) the rest are divided amongst the whole Army, according to every Mans Desert and Quality; that they keep them, or sell them to who will give most; but they will not forget to use all the means they can, to know their Estates, Friends, and Quality, and the better they find you, the worse they will use you, till you do agree to pay such a Ransom, as they will impose upon you; therefore many great Persons have endured much misery to conceal themselves, because their Ransoms are so intolerable: their best hope is of some Christian Agent, that many times cometh to redeem Slaves, either with Money, or Man for Man; those Agents knowing so well the extream covetousness of the _Tartars,_ do use to bribe some Jew or Merchant, that feigning they will sell them again to some other Nation, are oft redeemed for a very small Ransom. * * * * * {MN} _How he divideth the spoil._ {MN} But to this _Tartarian_ Army, when the _Turk,_ commands, he goeth with some small Artillery; and the _Nagayans, Precopens, Crims, Osovens,_ and _Circassians,_ are his Tributaries; but the _Perigorves, Oczaconians, Bialogordens,_ and _Dobrucen Tartars,_ the _Turk_ by Covenant commands to follow him, so that from all those _Tartars_ he hath had an Army of an hundred and twenty thousand excellent, swift, stomackfull _Tartarian_ Horse for foot they have none. Now the Chan, his Sultans and Nobility, use _Turkiso, Caramanian, Arabian, Parthian,_ and other strange _Tartarian_ Horses; the swiftest they esteem the best; seldom they feed any more at home, than they have present use for; but upon their Plains is a short Wood-like Heath, in some Countries like Gail, full of Berries, much better than any Grass. * * * * *