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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... season , from one - third to one - half . Both hay and corn must be carried home to the yard of the proprietor , who goes himself into the field to see them sent . In the simple life of the Tatars much may be traced of similarity with ...
... season , from one - third to one - half . Both hay and corn must be carried home to the yard of the proprietor , who goes himself into the field to see them sent . In the simple life of the Tatars much may be traced of similarity with ...
Page 25
... seasons of their two great holidays . The common Tatar carriage is a long covered cart or waggon , some of two , and others of four wheels , called a maggiare . Few , even of the richest among them , have any better vehicle than this to ...
... seasons of their two great holidays . The common Tatar carriage is a long covered cart or waggon , some of two , and others of four wheels , called a maggiare . Few , even of the richest among them , have any better vehicle than this to ...
Page 104
... clay , but I believe far the greater part is shallow , rocky , or gravelly ; and from the heat of the sun , the grass is burnt up very early in the season . Of corn 104 NOTES RELATING TO It sells at from seven to ten roubles ...
... clay , but I believe far the greater part is shallow , rocky , or gravelly ; and from the heat of the sun , the grass is burnt up very early in the season . Of corn 104 NOTES RELATING TO It sells at from seven to ten roubles ...
Page 105
... season . Of corn the average crop is said to be eight for one ; I cannot , however , think that , even in favourable years , it exceeds this amount , and I fear that deficient crops are more fre- quent than abundant ones . The har- vest ...
... season . Of corn the average crop is said to be eight for one ; I cannot , however , think that , even in favourable years , it exceeds this amount , and I fear that deficient crops are more fre- quent than abundant ones . The har- vest ...
Page 106
... seasons , insufficient to sup- ply the requisite quantity of moisture . + These observations having been written on the northern side of the ridge of mountains which skirt the coast of the Crimea , are not in- tended to apply to the ...
... seasons , insufficient to sup- ply the requisite quantity of moisture . + These observations having been written on the northern side of the ridge of mountains which skirt the coast of the Crimea , are not in- tended to apply to the ...
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