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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Page 63
... attendants at mosque , but the young seem to 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 ...
... attendants at mosque , but the young seem to 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 ...
Page 165
... attendants , I should not forget his recommendation . After this many other Tatars came on the same errand ; and though the ex- pectation of a handsome remuneration was undoubtedly the motives which induced these persons to make so ex ...
... attendants , I should not forget his recommendation . After this many other Tatars came on the same errand ; and though the ex- pectation of a handsome remuneration was undoubtedly the motives which induced these persons to make so ex ...
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