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\ planted gardens with fruit trees, near which fith. 
_ ponds beautified the situation ; summer houses made 
in the taste of various nations, from which the view 
extended to the neighbouring fields and plains, ad-_ 
ded agreeablenefs to the dweiling. 
As the Czarowitz grew up, his female guardians 
began to remark that he was no lefs prudent and 
sprightly, than handsome. The fame of the beauty, 
wisdom, and fine accomplithments of the Czaro- 
Witz was spread abroad on all sides. A certain Han 
of the Kirguise Tartars, wandering in the desert with 
his Kibitkas,* heard of this, avd was anxious to see 
so extraordinary an infant ; and having seen him, he 
formed a wih to carry him away into the desert. 
He began by endeavouring to persuade the guardians 
to travel with the Czarowitz and him into the desert. 
The matrons told him with all pohtenefs, that it was 
impofsible to do this without the Czar’s permifsi- 
on: that they had not the honour of knowing my 
lord Han, and that they never pay any visits with 
the Czarowitz to strangers. - The Haa has not con- 
tented with this polite answer, and stuck to them 
closer than formerly, justiike a hungry person to a 
piece of paste; and insisted that the nurses fhould go 
with the child into the desert. Having at last re- 
* Kibitka is a sort of tent made ot matts which is used by the 
wandering Kirguise and other Tartar nations. It also means a kind 
of covered waggon used for travelling in Kufsia, Probably this last was 
the original meaning of the word among the Tartars, forthese waggons 
were originally their habitations. Whenthey afterwards adopted tents 
for that purpose, they probably gaye these their dwellings stil! the same 
name as formerly. Ledit. 
