5. The Tatars or Tartars were a primitive tribe, the rivals,
and at length the subjects, of the Moguls. :In the
victorious armies of Zingis Khan and his successors, the
Tartars formed the vanguard; and the name which first
reached the ears of foreigners ,was applied to the whole
nation (Freret, in the Hist. de l'Academie, tom. xviii. p.
60). In speaking of all or any of the northern shepherds of
Europe or Asia, I indifferently use the appellations of
Scythians or Tartars.