GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTENTS. 
Moscovskoy — Mojocks, Ekortzy, and Iestakovo — Locava 
Sloboda — Paulovskoy — Plants — Animals — Trade — Rash con- 
duct of a young peasant — Kaziitskoy Chutor — Nizney Momon 
— Dolrinka — Metscha — Kasanhaia, first stanitza of the Don 
Cossacks. 
CHAP. XII. 
P. 297. 
TERRITORY OF THE DON COSSACKS. 
Appearance of the Cossacks at Kasanhaia — House of the Ataman 
— Ideal dangers of the Country — Voyage by water — Amuse- 
ments and dances of the people — Departure — Steppes — River 
Lazovai — Visit to a camp of Calmucks — Of their brandy 
distilled from mare's milk — Personal appearance of Calmucks 
— Arts, armour, and weapons — Recreations and condition of 
life — Acenovskaia — Of the Suroke, or Bobac, of the Steppes 
— The Biroke and Suslic — Nature of villages named in 
Russian maps — Stragglers from the army — Distinction 
between Cossacks of the Steppes and of the Don — Kamenskaia 
— Iron Foundries of Lugan — Etymology of the word Tanai's 
— Numerous camps of Calmucks — Approach toAxoy. 
CHAP. XIII. 
P. 343. 
CAPITAL OF THE DON COSSACKS. 
Arrival at Axay — Public entry — Reception by the Don Cossacks 
— Population of their territory — View of the Don — Cele- 
bration of a Court festival — Mode of fasting — Analogy 
between the Don and the Nile — Natural curiosities and 
antiquities — Fishes — Extraordinary appearance of Tcher- 
kask — Inhabitants and public buildings — Origin of the 
Cossacks — Causes of their increase — Emigrations — Foundation 
of their capital — Circassians — Commerce of Tcherkask — 
Polished manners of the people — Remarkable wager — Survey 
of the town — Entire houses moved — Diseases of the people — 
Greek impostor — Departure from Tcherkask. 
