NOTES SAAC RELATING TO THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE CRIM TATARS; WRITTEN DURING A FOUR YEARS' RESIDENCE AMONG WITH PLATES. BY MARY HOLDERNESS. LONDON: JOHN WARREN, OLD BOND STREET. ADVERTISEMENT. HAVING resided from the beginning of the year 1816 until the month of March 1820, at the village of Karagoss, in the Crimea, I had daily opportunities of becoming acquainted with the manners of the Tatar inhabitants of that neighbourhood. Such of these as appeared to me most remarkable I occasionally noted for the amusement of a friend in England, carefully committing to paper my observations as they successively arose. The little collection thus made I now venture to offer to the public, nearly in the form in which it was originally composed. Among numberless deficiencies and disqualifications of which I am conscious, I am induced to think that, as a resident and a female, I possessed advantages for acquiring information superior to those of the passing traveller. Of these I have endeavoured to avail myself, and by confining my remarks as much as possible to subjects consistent with my own knowledge, and of which I may be considered a competent witness, I am willing to hope that I have secured to my unconnected sketches the only merit to which they pretend - the recommendation of truth. M. H. |