Travels in Circassia, Krim Tartary, &c, Volume 1

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Page 338 - We are Four Millions, but we have unfortunately -been divided into many tribes, languages, and creeds ; we have various customs, traditions, interests, alliances, and feuds. We have hitherto never had one purpose, but we have modes of government, and habits of submission and command. The chief chosen by each body during war is implicitly obeyed, and our princes and our elders govern according to the custom of each place with greater authority than in the great states around us ; but from our wanting...
Page 340 - Russia — 200,000 alone of our people have been subjected by her during this long contest, of the remainder not one has voluntarily served Russia. Many children have been stolen, and sons of nobles taken as hostages ; but such as could recollect a country, have made their escape. We have amongst us men who have been favoured and flattered and honoured by the Emperor, and who have preferred to that favour the dangers of their country. We have amongst us thousands of Russians, who prefer our barbarism...
Page 333 - THE inhabitants of the Caucasus, instead of being subject to Russia, are not even at peace with her, but have for many years been engaged in continual war. This war they have maintained single-handed. They have received at no period encouragement or assistance from any Power. While the Porte held the supremacy of these Provinces they were left for their means of defence to themselves, but lately the Porte has in every way betrayed and abandoned them.
Page 54 - Near this place we found a range of caverns, famous for producing the poisonous fly, too well known in Servia and Hungary under the name of the Golubacser fly. These singular and venomous insects, somewhat resembling musquitoes, generally make their appearance, during the first great heat of summer, in such numbers as to seem like vast volumes of smoke...
Page 148 - ... little victim took up her tiny packet, covered her face with her white veil, and followed her new lord, apparently without a murmur. Their price, like that of every other commodity, is regulated by the demand and the supply. The Circassians, Georgians, and Grecians were the most valued, but always estimated according to their beauty. The two former being very difficult to procure, on account of the strict blockade maintained by Russia on the Circassian coast of the Black Sea, now fetch as high...
Page 354 - These volumes are the work of one who set forth resolute to see, and was not to be daunted by dangers or difficulties. We find her bandying compliments with Beys and Pashas — presiding at Mussulman dinners — nestling among the cushions of the Tandour, or partaking of the bath with the Fatimas of a Turkish household, gathering up their prattle, and learning how to manage a
Page 354 - CHATTERTON. 2 vols. small 8vo. 21s. " These volumes are well calculated to be valuable travelling guides to whoever may visit the country to which they relate. There runs through the whole a vein of playful humour, and a spirit of keen observation, which is highly attractive, and which reminds us more of Head's popular * Bubbles from the Brunncns,' than any tour we can call to our recollection."— Literary Gazette.
Page 354 - TRAVELS IN PALESTINE AND SYRIA; BY GEORGE ROBINSON, ESQ. In 2 vols. post 8vo, with Maps and Plans, 21s. bound. " No one had previously attempted the task which Mr. Robinson has here executed, and no performance of the kind can be more desirable or advantageous to the public than the present is likely to prove.
Page 351 - Kingdom," and upon a similar plan, in order that the two publications may embrace the whole body of the British Peerage, Baronetage, and Gentry, and may furnish such a mass of authentic information, in regard to all the principal families in the kingdom, as has never before been brought together.
Page 355 - I did know him, love alone would have fixed me forever near his person. The world is full of his glory, his deeds, and his monuments; but no one knows the true shades of his character, his private qualities, or the natural disposition of his soul. This great void I undertake to fill up, and for such a task I possess advantages unexampled in history. " I collected and recorded, day by day, all that I saw of Napoleon, all that I heard him say, during the period of eighteen months in which I was constantly...

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