TO NICHOLAEF. 
Petersburg, and even to Riga. The oxen, after 
their long journey, are occasionally sold with 
the cargoes they have brought ; and sometimes 
they return again, the whole of that immense 
distance, with other merchandize. The cara- 
vans halt every evening at sun-set ; when their 
drivers turn their oxen loose to graze, and lie 
down themselves, in the open air, to pass the 
night upon the steppe. We noticed one, among 
many groupes of this kind, remarkably inter- 
esting ; because it possessed the novelty of a 
female’, whose features were not concealed 
by a veil. She was preparing to pass the 
night, with her child, upon the grass of the 
steppe ; preferring the canopy of heaven to that 
of the madjar'. Her companions were of a 
wild but equivocal race, among whom the 
Tahlar features appeared to predominate : they 
were clothed in goat-skins. Nothing is more 
striking than the spectacle afforded by these 
immense caravans, slowly advancing, each in 
one direct line, by hundreds at a time : they 
exhibit a convincing proof of a very con- 
siderable internal commerce carried on by 
(1) “ Tartari suas mutieres in ahditis semper tenenl loeis Michal. 
Lituan. Fragment, de Morib. Tartarorum. Lug. Bat. 1630. 
(2) The Tahlar waggon, called Madjar or Maggiar, is always of 
same form and materials; a long, narrow vehicle, supported by 
four wooden wheels, without any iron attire. 
