CHAP. I. 
JOURNEY THROUGH KUBAN TAHTARY, TO THE 
FRONTIER OF CIRCASSIA. 
Relays for Horses— River Ae —Cossacks of the Black Sea 
-Came of their Migration-How distinguished from 
Don Cossacks, and from Russians— Wild Foivl— Sin- 
gular Species of Mole — Cherubinovskoy — Plants Rate 
oj Travelling Tumuli Stragglers from the Army— 
View of the Caucasian Mountains — Capital of the 
Tchernomorski Manners ' of the People — their 
Dress and External appearance— Visit from the Ataman 
- Causes of the War in Circassia — Passage of the 
Kuban— Advance of the Cossack Army— Arrival of the 
Pasha of Anapa— Ceremony of concluding the Peace — 
Circassian Princes— Peasants of Circassia— Dances of the 
Circassians Language — Lesgi — Remarkable instance 
