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some withered and frozen herbs, or 

 a little moss. The masters only 

 furnish a little hay to their weakly 

 beasts, and to those which bring 

 forth out of season. As to their 

 camels, which in like manner they 

 obhge to provide their own subsist- 

 ence, they wrap them in old felt 

 coverlets, which thew sew about 

 their bodies. Hence all their cat- 

 tle are dismally lean and meagre 

 toward spring ; but, in the summer, 

 they are not only healthy, but fat. 

 In order to profit of the milk, they 

 tie, during the day, their soals and 

 calves to cords stretched near the 

 jourts, and suffer them to run with 

 their dams only during night. They 

 liave observed that the young, 

 brought up thus sparingly, support 

 much better the severity of the win- 

 ters, than those which are indulged 

 with all the mother's milk. 



Both sexes wear shirts, which are 

 usually of coarse cloth of nettles, 

 long and large drawers, and buskins 

 or slippers. A woman's gown is 

 of fine cloth or silk stuff, buttoned 

 before, and tightly bound round 

 the body with a girdle. The neck 

 and breast are covered with a kind 

 of net, garnished with pieces of 

 money. The Baschkirs are more 

 gross, negligent, and slovenly in 

 their manner of livinsr and com- 

 merce than the Kasan Tartars, but 

 they are also more hospitable, lively, 

 and joyous, especially in summer. 

 They make no account of car- 

 riages, but both men and women 

 love to ride on horseback, and take 



pride in fine horses and rich hous- 

 ings. The saddles for the women 

 are distinguished from tliose which 

 the men use by handsome and larger 

 coverings. A saddled horse is com- 

 monly seen before every jourt. The 

 habit which they have contracted 

 of being constantly either on hoi se- 

 back, or seated on tbeirhams, makes 

 nearly all the men crook-kneed. 

 They s'.eep at night with their 

 clothes on, lying on felts ; whence 

 they are rarely without vermin, es- 

 pecially as they use fewer ablutions 

 than other Mohammedans. Old 

 age without reproach is greatly es- 

 teemed among them, acccording to 

 the oriental custom ; and, when 

 they invite their friends to a feast, 

 they promise to seat them among 

 (he old men. 



Character of If'^illiam Rufus, from 

 Andr ewes' s history of Great Bri- 

 tain. 



WILLIAM was now on the 

 point of gaining Guienne, 

 by advancing money to its prince as 

 he had acquiied Normandy when 

 a mis-directed shaft, from a French 

 knight, named Walter 7 yrrel, end- 

 ed all his ambitious projects. The 

 king was hunting in the New Forest 

 and had just struck a deer. He 

 checked his horse, and had raised 

 his harid to guard his eyes from the 

 sun-beams, when he received the 

 fatal wound. * The disastrous ar- 

 cher 



* Monarchs must have prodigies to announce their fall. We are told, that William 

 dreamed the r.if ht before the fatal chace, that an extreme cold wind had pierced 

 through his sides. A monk too would have detained him from hunting, by the re- 

 cital of a frighiful vision ; he had seen in a dream, the king gnawing and tearing a 

 crucifix with his tectn, ^nd he had seen him spurned and trodden down by the image, 

 while flamts of fire burst from his mouth. The intrepid tyrant ordered him loo 

 shillings, and bade him " dream better dreams." [Bk«mpt. Ca.md. Rim.^ins.] 



There 



