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 81
... taste for tales of necromancy and en- chantment , but they are fond of ghost stories , and the fact of the devil walking in the garden at Karagoss is not doubted by any one of them . The boys have many very active games , some of which ...
... taste for tales of necromancy and en- chantment , but they are fond of ghost stories , and the fact of the devil walking in the garden at Karagoss is not doubted by any one of them . The boys have many very active games , some of which ...
Page 99
... pay in bodily labour . Thus , robbing a neighbouring garden of its fruit or firewood , is much more agreeable to a Tatar's taste than going to hew wood F 2 THE CRIM TATARS . - 99 the proprietors of estates on which ...
... pay in bodily labour . Thus , robbing a neighbouring garden of its fruit or firewood , is much more agreeable to a Tatar's taste than going to hew wood F 2 THE CRIM TATARS . - 99 the proprietors of estates on which ...
Page 100
... taste than going to hew wood in a forest a few miles off , though the permission to do so costs him a mere trifle , the stated price being fifty kopeeks ( about fivepence ) for as much as a pair of oxen can draw . * From this character ...
... taste than going to hew wood in a forest a few miles off , though the permission to do so costs him a mere trifle , the stated price being fifty kopeeks ( about fivepence ) for as much as a pair of oxen can draw . * From this character ...
Page 120
... to the consistency of gooseberry fool , and has a taste some- what like that of boiled apples . Potlejan is another favourite food , being boiled with meat , or fried in batter . The maize , or Indian corn , is 120 NOTES RELATING TO.
... to the consistency of gooseberry fool , and has a taste some- what like that of boiled apples . Potlejan is another favourite food , being boiled with meat , or fried in batter . The maize , or Indian corn , is 120 NOTES RELATING TO.
Page 140
... taste and habits of the nation . Boys intended for this oc- cupation are initiated very early ; and by the system of receiving their wages in sheep , which they always keep with their master's flock , very soon acquire a flock of their ...
... taste and habits of the nation . Boys intended for this oc- cupation are initiated very early ; and by the system of receiving their wages in sheep , which they always keep with their master's flock , very soon acquire a flock of their ...
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