THROUGH KUBAN TAIITARY, 
Every endeavour was therefore used to attack 
him in such a manner as not to endanger his life. 
This intention was soon perceived by the Circas- 
sian, who determined not to surrender. With 
his single sabre, he shivered their three lances 
at the first onset, and afterwards wounded two 
of the three assailants. At length, surrounded by 
others who came to their assistance, he fell, 
covered with wounds, in the midst of his enemies, 
fighting to the last moment. We visited him in 
his prison, where he lay stretched upon a plank, 
bearing the anguish of his terrible wounds with- 
out a groan. They had recently extracted the 
iron point of a lance from his side. A young 
Circassian girl was employed in driving Hies from 
his face with a green bough. All our expressions 
of concern and regard were lost upon him : we 
offered him money, but he refused to accept of 
it, handing it to his fellow-prisoners as if totally 
ignorant of its use. 
In the same place of confinement stood a Cir- 
cassian female, about twenty years of age, with 
fine light brown hair, extremely beautiful, but 
pale, and hardly able to support herself, through 
grief and weakness. The Cossack officers stated, 
that when they captured this woman she was m 
excellent health ; but that ever since, owing to 
her separation from her husband, she had refused 
