Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c: including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836 . edwith the governor, Osman Pacha, for deliveringup their fortress to a foreign enemy, that theyvented their fury by detaining as slaves every s 2 260 VOYAGE ROUND THE BLACK SEA. Turk who had fled to them for protection. Sincethis time it has continued in possession of theRussians, and the sword of the invader has neverbeen replaced in its scabbard. That the possession of Anapa has opened awide field of enterprise for Russia cannot bedoubted, as it
Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c: including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836 . edwith the governor, Osman Pacha, for deliveringup their fortress to a foreign enemy, that theyvented their fury by detaining as slaves every s 2 260 VOYAGE ROUND THE BLACK SEA. Turk who had fled to them for protection. Sincethis time it has continued in possession of theRussians, and the sword of the invader has neverbeen replaced in its scabbard. That the possession of Anapa has opened awide field of enterprise for Russia cannot bedoubted, as it oifers a tempting opportunity ofbringing under her sceptre the various warliketribes of the Caucasus ; still, it appears a difiicultundertaking to conquer a people, enthusiasticlovers of liberty, who, entrenched behind theirnative mountains, have down to the present daybid defiance to the attempts made by the mostpowerful nations to bring them under subjec-tion. The military operations of Russia have nothitherto been productive of any decided advan-tage, and the hatred of the people was never moreviolently excited than at the present AN EVENING VIEW OP THE BAY OF SOUDJOUK-KALE. LETTER XXVI. ARRIVAL AT SOUDJOUK-KALE ITS CAPTURE BY THE RUSSIANS ADVANTAGEOUS POSITION ORIGIN OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TURKS AT SOUDJOUK-KALE EXPULSION OF THE TURKS SUPPOSED ANTIQUITY OF SOUDJOUK-KALE SKETCH OF THE RUSSIAN CAMP PLANS OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERN-MENT FOR THE FINAL SUBJUGATION OF CIRCASSIA ARRIVAL OF A CIRCASSIAN NOBLE AT THE CAMP HIS ADHESION TO THE CAUSE OF RUSSIA CHARACTER OF THE CIRCASSIANS WATCH-FIRES. The voyage we now made along the shores ofthis beautiful country, was truly delightful; thebreeze from the mountains tempered the greatheat, the oak, so long a stranger, once more reared 262 VOYAGE ROUND THE BLACK SEA. its majestic head, and the thousand trees andbeautiful plants that covered the ground werealike refreshing to the senses and cheering to thespirits of the travelle
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