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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... remarkable I occasionally noted for the amusement of a friend in England , carefully committing to paper my observa- tions as they successively arose . The little collection thus made I now venture to offer to the public , nearly in the ...
... remarkable I occasionally noted for the amusement of a friend in England , carefully committing to paper my observa- tions as they successively arose . The little collection thus made I now venture to offer to the public , nearly in the ...
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... remarkable and praise- worthy . The Tatar law , I have been toid , in cases of infidelity , sen- tences the offender to be placed in a grave dug for the purpose , when , the whole neighbourhood being assembled from many versts round ...
... remarkable and praise- worthy . The Tatar law , I have been toid , in cases of infidelity , sen- tences the offender to be placed in a grave dug for the purpose , when , the whole neighbourhood being assembled from many versts round ...
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... go seldom . I was once a secret witness of their ceremonies in a village metchet , but saw nothing remarkable . The most religious of them place their ambition in acquiring a sufficient fund to carry them to Mec- ca , THE CRIM TATARS . 63.
... go seldom . I was once a secret witness of their ceremonies in a village metchet , but saw nothing remarkable . The most religious of them place their ambition in acquiring a sufficient fund to carry them to Mec- ca , THE CRIM TATARS . 63.
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... remarkable mountain called Agirmish is in sight of Karagoss , and partly included in the estate on which I resided . It is conjectured by Pallas to be the Cimmerian mountain of the ancients , and certainly , from its de- tached and ...
... remarkable mountain called Agirmish is in sight of Karagoss , and partly included in the estate on which I resided . It is conjectured by Pallas to be the Cimmerian mountain of the ancients , and certainly , from its de- tached and ...
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... remarkable that barley and oats , which in English husbandry follow in the succession of crops , never prosper so well in the Crimea as when sown on the same land , year after year , for eight , nine , or even ten years ...
... remarkable that barley and oats , which in English husbandry follow in the succession of crops , never prosper so well in the Crimea as when sown on the same land , year after year , for eight , nine , or even ten years ...
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