TO THE FRONTIER OF CIRCASSIA. 
Russians across the Kuban, and entered Ekate- 
rinf.dara, but was not permitted to remain 
there, on account of the quarantine. He was 
suffered, however, to pitch his tent upon the 
Cossack side of the Kuban , close to the river. 
From thence he passed again into Circassia; 
and assembling the princes of the country, 
made them take a solemn oath of peace and 
friendship with the Tchernomorski : but the 
latter, not being satisfied with a report of these 
proceedings, insisted that the same oath should 
be publickly repeated upon their side of the 
river. It was for this purpose that the Pasha 
of Anapa had again returned, bringing with him 
the most powerful of the Circassian princes, 
who now waited upon the northern bank of 
the Kuban, to proceed in the required cere- 
mony. 
At nine o’clock on the following morning, the 
8th of July, General Drascovitz sent his droshy 
escorted by a party of armed Cossacks and an 
officer, to state that the Ataman was waiting for 
us to join his suite in the procession to the 
Pasha of Anapa's tent by the Kuban ; and that 
many of the princes of Circassia were there. 
0) A carriage peculiar to Russia. See the Vignette to the Eighth 
Chapter of Vol. I. 
