Notes Relating to the Manners and Customs of the Crim Tatars: Written During a Four Years' Residence Among that People. With Plates |
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... Stepp ; but in the towns , par- ticularly Kaffa , may be found the descendants of more than fifteen different nations . of the soil , and for hay according to the B 3 THE CRIM TATARS . 5 LO The law respecting property in the ...
... Stepp ; but in the towns , par- ticularly Kaffa , may be found the descendants of more than fifteen different nations . of the soil , and for hay according to the B 3 THE CRIM TATARS . 5 LO The law respecting property in the ...
Page 52
... Stepp , the body was placed on the ground , and the men gathered round it , praying as before . In the act of praying they hold up the hand , as if reading from it , and at the close of the prayer pass one hand over the forehead , or ...
... Stepp , the body was placed on the ground , and the men gathered round it , praying as before . In the act of praying they hold up the hand , as if reading from it , and at the close of the prayer pass one hand over the forehead , or ...
Page 72
... Stepp Tatars are often dug in the ground to such a depth as to require only roofing to complete them . These being imper- vious to the air , are warmer in win- ter and cooler in summer than the usual huts , which are built of wood and ...
... Stepp Tatars are often dug in the ground to such a depth as to require only roofing to complete them . These being imper- vious to the air , are warmer in win- ter and cooler in summer than the usual huts , which are built of wood and ...
Page 96
... Stepp , where every man prepares his threshing - floor with great care , and in the following manner . The ground being first pared , so that the grass is cut finely off , it is next well watered until it becomes almost a pool ; when ...
... Stepp , where every man prepares his threshing - floor with great care , and in the following manner . The ground being first pared , so that the grass is cut finely off , it is next well watered until it becomes almost a pool ; when ...
Page 115
... as forty thousand . The mulberries grown at Karagoss and in the gardens of the Stepp are of the white kind , and are small and tasteless ; but on the south coast the large black THE CRIM TATARS . 115 Among the fruit trees of the Crimea ...
... as forty thousand . The mulberries grown at Karagoss and in the gardens of the Stepp are of the white kind , and are small and tasteless ; but on the south coast the large black THE CRIM TATARS . 115 Among the fruit trees of the Crimea ...
Common terms and phrases
Akmetchet animals attendants bagpipe beauty believe boiled bride brought Bulgarians ceremony Cimmerian Circassian clothes coarse commonly consists corn Cossack covered CRIM TATARS Crimea deceased dish distance dress favourite fifty kopeeks five roubles flocks four fruit garden at Karagoss girls Greeks hair handkerchief handsome heat Horse-racing horses husband inhabitants Kaffa kaftan Karasubazar Kertch knout known labour lamb land latter likewise married millet mountain Mulla Murza neighbourhood nerality never occasion Odessa pairs of oxen party peasant peasantry peninsula Perekop persons petack plough pood possesses prayers priest proprietor quantity remarkable residence round Russian salt scorbutic season seen Sevastopol sheep sherbet shoes silver sold sort south coast Stepp Sudac summer taboon taste Tatar sacerdatal Tatar women tenced Theodosia thousand threshing thrown tion towns trees trowsers Turkish silk twenty versts village of Karagoss wear wedding wife winter