Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c: including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836 . as a breeze, or even aswell, that could excite the apprehension of themost timid woman. In addition to this, our occu-pations and amusements were as diversified andagreeable as if we had been passing our timeamong the gayest party in the most fashionablesaloon: for the studious there was a well-assortedlibrary, card-tables for the idle, music for the ad-mirers of that delightful art; while to the observer,the varied characters of the moving multitu
Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c: including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836 . as a breeze, or even aswell, that could excite the apprehension of themost timid woman. In addition to this, our occu-pations and amusements were as diversified andagreeable as if we had been passing our timeamong the gayest party in the most fashionablesaloon: for the studious there was a well-assortedlibrary, card-tables for the idle, music for the ad-mirers of that delightful art; while to the observer,the varied characters of the moving multitude,the distinctive traits by which each individual wasmarked, supplied a fund of amusement, particularlythe sailors, a race proverbially light-hearted andmerry. Watching the playful dolphins as theybounded through the waters, afforded another oc-cupation for the indolent; these poetic fishes,which abound in the Euxine, here white and theregrey, were our constant companions ; they hoveredabout our vessels, now darting with the swiftnessof arrows through the mighty deep, then sailingquietly along in pairs, as if determined to keeppace with INTERVIEW BETWEEN COUNT WORRENZOW AND A CIRCASSIAN CHIEF. LETTER XXV. FIRST ASPECT OF THE CAUCASIAN MOUNTAINS CIRCASSIANS THEIR HOSTILITY TO RUSSIA PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OP ENGLAND TO THE CIRCASSIANS THE PORTFOLIO IN THE MOUNTAINS OP THE CAUCASUS INTERVIEW BETWEEN COUNT WORRENZOW AND A CIRCASSIAN CHIEF FORTRESS OF ANAPA ORIGIN OP THE CONNEXION BETWEEN THE TURKS AND CIRCASSIANS ANAPA BECOMES A PACHALIK POLITICAL INTRIGUES WAR BETWEEN THE TURKS AND RUSSIANS DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES TO THE CIRCASSIANS PROM THEIRALLIANCE WITH THE TURKS. At the dawn of the following day, I was arousedfrom my cot by the sailors crying Tcherkesse !Tcherkesse ! Circassia ! Circassia ! and jumpingupon deck, I caught for the first time a view ofthe lesser chain of the Caucasus, piled up in all 252 VOYAGE ROUND THE BLACK SEA. their varied forms to heaven; and a mor
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