'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎96] (645/1024)

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aoainft the great Cofms, whom by their Aiiiftance he overcame. Thefe Cazari were '
afro poffelTed of all that part of Tmica Cherfonefus which is plain and fit for feeding
Cattle, they being addidted, after the manner of all other Scythian Nomad? ^ unto a
Pafloral life 5 which Feninfula from them was untill the Famous Irruption of the
Tartars in the Thirteenth Century, called Cajfaria, or Cbazaria, and afterwards more
corruptly by the Genoefes^ Venetians^ and other Latines , Cazaria.^ I find mention
ofthele Chazari or Chdzars in divers Terfian and Arabian Hiflorians^apd Geogra
phers. Abulpharagius acquaints us with an Expedition they' made into Ferfia the
183 Year of the Hegira, which was after our Account in 799* From whence they
returned with great Spoile, and above ipoooo Captives: and afterwards, in the
514^. Year of the Mahumetan Epocha, being A. C. 1120. they made another In
road, accompanied by the Comanians, ) whom the Arabians call Kaphjacks ;) Frequent
mention is made of them by that Defervedly Celebrated Arabian Geographer Al
Edrift, who flouriftied in the 548^. year of the Hegira 5 of Chrift, 1153. He al
ways calls the Cajpian Sea, Mare Chozar : and all that Countrey on the North and
to the Weft of the Caffian Sea, terra Chozar. He acquaints us, that the Refidence of
the Prince of Chozar was not far above the Mouth of the Volga, which the Tartars
call Atheli which name I luppofe it derived from Attila, that Renowned King
of the Harms, being fo called in the Relation of the Ambafladors who were lent by
the Emperour Jujiine, unto the Great Chacan of the Turks refiding in the half.
Al Edrifi and his Epitomizer, commonly known by the Name of Geograthus Nubkn-
fs intimate, That thefe Chozars inhabited divers other Cities, but that this Was the
Metropolis; he furprelles the Name, fly ling it only from the River, the City o{jthd»,
and declares it was divided by the River, the chief and greateft part being on the
Weft-fide 5 and that the other lefs confiderable on the Eafl-lide, Was inhabited only
by the meaner fort of People and Merchantspt being a place of great Trade,that which
made it more confiderable, was the liberty allowed unto all of the Publick Profcfiion,
and Exercife of their relpective Religious Perfwafions, Jem, Chrifiians, Mahmetans,
and Idolaters being there equally countenanced, which I luppofe might occafion that
Dialogue publifhed out of an Ancient Hebrew Manufcript, by V Empereur, between
the Author a Jewe(h Rabbi, and the King of Chozar. This City is faid to have been
extended along the River three miles in length, and its breadth proportionable; the
Weftern part well fortified 5 adorned with the Emperours PaJace^and feveral other
eminent Stru&ures. Najfir Eddin, who wrote at the latter end of the 13th. Century,
calls this City in his Geographical Tables, Balanjar, and from him Abulfeda 5 they place
it in 46 degrees 30 minutes of Northern Latitude; where within "fjx or eight mi
nutes our beft Geographers feat Aflracan. And queftionlefs this was that City which
our Author and Olearim call Old Aflracan. Thefe Chazari, did I fuppofe, conferve
their vaft Dominion without any great Interruption, at leaft untile. C. 900. For
Alferganus who lived about that Time, places no other Nation in his Table of Climes,
between China and the Borifihenes ; And Eutichitts, who Worte about 3 ° or 4 ° y cars
after, makes mention of them as a mighty Nation, and many amonft them con
verted unto the Chriftian Belief. About the middle of the 10th Century thefe Cha
zari gave place unto the Cumanians or Commanians s who were alfo a turhifh Nation
known unto the Turkp, Ferfians, and Arabians, under the Name of Kaphjac^ whether
they expelled the Chazari, or that the former becoming the more Eminent Tribe,
gave Law and Name unto thefe latter (as hath fince frequently happened among the
Tartars) I will not here undertake to determine: but this is certain, thatfuddenly
the Name of Chazari was extindf, and all that Trad of Land from the- Nepper unto
Turtylan 1 500 miles beyond the Volga, was inhabited by thefe Cumanians, who were
often troublefome unto the Ruffes, Lithuanians, Hungarians, and other Neighbour-Na
tions. But this People was almoft totally deftroyed by the Tartars in that great In
undation which happened at the beginning of the 12th Century, loon after the
death of Jingiz Chan ; whofe Son Hocota being chofen Empercur, fent his Nephew Ba
nt, or Bathy, the Son of Tujfy Jingiz Chan, his Eldeft Son with 4000-00 Men, to in
vade the Northern Parts of Afiz. 1 he Cumani for divers yearstvaiianty refilled, ana
made the greatefl oppofition the Tartars met with in all their Conquefts; repuls’d
them in two pitch’d Battels; but then growing fecure, and difperfing upon the!Z>~
urs retreat, they were unexpededly furprized, the whole Countrey over-run, above
200000 killed, their King Kutlm hardly efcaping with 40000 into Hungary, where