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The General Description os Hungary.
Srepe etiam flerileis incehdere prof nit agros,
Atque levem flipulam cr epit antibus urere flammis.
To set their Fields on sire, and Stubble burn
With crackling Flames, does to their profit turn.
They use not Barnes or Stackes of Corn; but have many deep and
large Caves under Ground, wherein they lay it up safe, both from Rob-
bers and sudden incursion of Enemies. At Clefch near Toopolchan,
when the Turks and Tartars made their Inroads in the iast Wars,
the People retired, and hid themselves in such Cavities; but some Turks,
speaking Schiavoni an, told them that the Coast was clear, and the Ene-
my gone; and so tempting them out of their Holes, they were unfor-
tunately deceived into Captivity, and carried away into remote Coun-
treys, never to be heard of again.
There is also great plenty of Deer, Hares, all sorts of Poultrey, Par-
tridges and Pheafants ; great store of Sheep, which in divers places,
have long Spiral Horns, and very long curled Wood. And Oxen in
great numbers, whereof ’tis thought they send an hundred thousand
yearly into Italy, Germany, and other Parts; and it is commonly said,
they have enough to serve a great part of Europe. They are of a kind
of Moufe-colour ; and the Eastern Ct mpany at Vienna hath the privilege
to bring them, to furnisli that City. There are also Buffelos, where-
of they make no small advantage, in ploughing of their Lands, espe-
cially in some Rifs Grounds, w7here they must else use five Yoaks of
Oxen to a Plough; and one in my company told me that he had been
fain to make use of six Busf elds to draw a light Calleche, or Chariot
through some Grounds. Not far from Botefech, there are Horfes also
in very great number, some large, many but small, yet swift. I saw a
thousand of them belonging to the Peasants at Sone, Sene or Senia, a
Village upon the Danube, in the Contribution Country, nor far from
Comara.
As they exceed in many things, so they are peculiar in some others;
particularly in their Language, which is proper to themselves, and dif-
ferent from any other. I went to a Church at Bitchka, where the
Minister Prayed and Preached ; and though there were a very good
Linguist with me, who spake Schlavonian, German, Turkijh, Vulgar
Greek and Italian ; yet could he make nothing of it, or find assinity
in it, with any other Language he knew. A Specimen hereof is set
dowm by Megiferus, of the Lords Prayer, in that Language. Mi At-
tyanck Ky vagy az meniegbe, m gh Szentel Tesfeck az te nevoed, &c. In
the like manner we were confounded by the Language of Albania, on
the Northward part of Epirus, and West of Macedonia. We made use
of some of that Countrey in palling the Mountains, who were able to
speak some Schlavonian: But as for Albanefe, or their own Language,
wherein they were delighted to sing Day and Night, as they travelled’
with us,our belt Linguills,both Turks and C7;rz/?z<m,understood nothing
of it.
In some parts of Hungary, rrsany speak Scblavonian, at Freiftat, which
the Hungarians call Colgotz. I observed, that at the Church, the Ser-
mon was in Schlavonian ; but at the Francifcans Church, in Hungarian.
This incommunication in Speech, makes them to learn other Langua¬
ges,
The General Description os Hungary.
Srepe etiam flerileis incehdere prof nit agros,
Atque levem flipulam cr epit antibus urere flammis.
To set their Fields on sire, and Stubble burn
With crackling Flames, does to their profit turn.
They use not Barnes or Stackes of Corn; but have many deep and
large Caves under Ground, wherein they lay it up safe, both from Rob-
bers and sudden incursion of Enemies. At Clefch near Toopolchan,
when the Turks and Tartars made their Inroads in the iast Wars,
the People retired, and hid themselves in such Cavities; but some Turks,
speaking Schiavoni an, told them that the Coast was clear, and the Ene-
my gone; and so tempting them out of their Holes, they were unfor-
tunately deceived into Captivity, and carried away into remote Coun-
treys, never to be heard of again.
There is also great plenty of Deer, Hares, all sorts of Poultrey, Par-
tridges and Pheafants ; great store of Sheep, which in divers places,
have long Spiral Horns, and very long curled Wood. And Oxen in
great numbers, whereof ’tis thought they send an hundred thousand
yearly into Italy, Germany, and other Parts; and it is commonly said,
they have enough to serve a great part of Europe. They are of a kind
of Moufe-colour ; and the Eastern Ct mpany at Vienna hath the privilege
to bring them, to furnisli that City. There are also Buffelos, where-
of they make no small advantage, in ploughing of their Lands, espe-
cially in some Rifs Grounds, w7here they must else use five Yoaks of
Oxen to a Plough; and one in my company told me that he had been
fain to make use of six Busf elds to draw a light Calleche, or Chariot
through some Grounds. Not far from Botefech, there are Horfes also
in very great number, some large, many but small, yet swift. I saw a
thousand of them belonging to the Peasants at Sone, Sene or Senia, a
Village upon the Danube, in the Contribution Country, nor far from
Comara.
As they exceed in many things, so they are peculiar in some others;
particularly in their Language, which is proper to themselves, and dif-
ferent from any other. I went to a Church at Bitchka, where the
Minister Prayed and Preached ; and though there were a very good
Linguist with me, who spake Schlavonian, German, Turkijh, Vulgar
Greek and Italian ; yet could he make nothing of it, or find assinity
in it, with any other Language he knew. A Specimen hereof is set
dowm by Megiferus, of the Lords Prayer, in that Language. Mi At-
tyanck Ky vagy az meniegbe, m gh Szentel Tesfeck az te nevoed, &c. In
the like manner we were confounded by the Language of Albania, on
the Northward part of Epirus, and West of Macedonia. We made use
of some of that Countrey in palling the Mountains, who were able to
speak some Schlavonian: But as for Albanefe, or their own Language,
wherein they were delighted to sing Day and Night, as they travelled’
with us,our belt Linguills,both Turks and C7;rz/?z<m,understood nothing
of it.
In some parts of Hungary, rrsany speak Scblavonian, at Freiftat, which
the Hungarians call Colgotz. I observed, that at the Church, the Ser-
mon was in Schlavonian ; but at the Francifcans Church, in Hungarian.
This incommunication in Speech, makes them to learn other Langua¬
ges,