{MN} _How the Chan doth serve the Great_ Turk. {MN} Their Arms are such, as they have surprised or got from the _Christians_ or _Persians,_ both Brest-plates, Swords, Scimitars, and Helmets; Bows and Arrows they make most themselves, also their Bridles and Saddles are indifferent, but the Nobility are very handsome, and well armed like the _Turks,_ in whom consisteth their greatest Glory; the ordinary sort have little Armour, some a plain young Pole unshaven, headed with a piece of Iron for a Lance; some an old _Christian_ Pike, or a _Turks_ Cavarine, yet those Tattertimallions will have two or three Horses, some four or five, as well for service, as for to eat; which makes their Armies seem thrice so many as there are Soldiers. The Chan himself hath about his Person, Ten thousand chosen _Tartars_ and _Janizaries,_ some small Ordnance, and a white Mares Tail, with a piece of green Taffity on a great Pike, is carried before him for a Standard; because they hold no Beast so precious as a white Mare, whose Milk is only for the King and Nobility, and to Sacrifice to their Idols; but the rest have Ensigns of divers Colours. * * * * * {MN} _Their Arms._ For all this miserable Knowledge, Furniture, and Equipage, the mischief they do in _Christendom_ is wonderful, by reason of their hardness of Life and Constitution, Obedience, Agility, and their Emperours Bounty, Honours, Grace, and Dignities he ever bestoweth upon those, that have done him any memorable Service in the face of his Enemies. {MN} The Caspian Sea, most Men agree that have passed it, to be in length about 200 Leagues, and in breadth an hundred and fifty, environed to the East, with the great Desarts of the _Tartars_ of _Turkomania;_ to the West, by the _Circasses,_ and the Mountain _Caucasus;_ to the North, by the River _Volga,_ and the Land of _Nagay;_ and to the South, by _Media,_ and _Persia:_ This Sea is fresh Water in many places, in others as salt as the great Ocean; it hath many great Rivers which fall into it, as the mighty River of _Volga,_ which is like a Sea, running near Two thousand Miles, through many great and large Countries, that send into it many other great Rivers; also out of _Saberia, Yaick,_ and _Yem,_ out of the great Mountain _Caucasus,_ the River _Sirus, Arash,_ and divers others, yet no Sea nearer it than the black Sea, which is at least an hundred Leagues distant: In which Country live the _Georgians,_ now part _Armenians,_ part _Nestorians;_ it is neither found to increase or diminish, or empty it self any way, except it be under Ground, and in some places they can find no Ground at Two hundred fathom. * * * * * {MN} _A Description of the_ Caspian _Sea._