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and entirely unknown in any part of Europe or America, 
Poland and Hungary excepted. The captain conducted us 
into a well-furnished, comfortable room, assisted us to un- 
dress and get to bed, and from time to time applied wet 
cloths to our swollen face and body, until a profound sleep 
temporarily relieved our excruciating pains. The same 
care was taken of our servant, who} in the madness caused 
by his sufferings, attempted to shoot himself that he might 
be out of misery, but was prevented by two athletic Cos- 
sacks, and watched and nursed until he, too, was relieved 
by sleep. It was not until after a week of suffering that 
the fever and inflammation subsided so that we could open 
our eyes, and then, with many hearty thanks to our hospi- 
table host, Captain Wasil Iwanovich, and his kind-hearted 
family, and with the deepest gratitude, we continued our 
travel to Mosdok, from which town we went with a cara- 
van, escorted by two cannon, two hundred infantry, and 
sixty Cossacks onforseback, through the fertile valleys of 
romantic Circassia, with her castles and warlike knights, to 
the Russian fortress Wladicaucas; thence we ascended the 
bank of the furious Terek, through the Porta Caucasica, to 
the height of nine thousand feet, from which we descended 
to the delicious plains of Transcaucasia, every where enjoy- 
ing the same hospitable reception. 
The utmost hospitality is found among all the Russians, 
and one can not visit their principal cities without being 
thoroughly convinced of it. The English Captain Coch- 
rane, known by his pedestrian travels in Russia, started 
from St. Petersburg, taking with him only five francs, and 
when he arrived in Moscow—a distance of seven hundred 
versts, ov four hundred English miles—his five frances were 
still in his pocket. 
As the Cossacks of the Black Sea are no agriculturists, 
but derive their subsistence from their numerous herds of 
horses, oxen, sheep, goats, and hogs, they suffer immensely 
