VVORONETZ. 
the Ukraine, and the Cossacks, by an unprincipled 
race of men, with whom the Cossack and 
the Tahtar are degraded in comparison. The 
chambers of our inn were immediately over the 
town jail ; and it is quite unnecessary to add of 
what nation its tenants were composed. The 
Russian finds it dangerous to travel in the Ukraine, 
and along the Don, because he is conscious the 
inhabitants of these countries know too well 
with whom they have to deal. The Cossack, 
when engaged in war, and remote from his 
native land, is a robber, because plunder is a 
part of the military discipline in which he has 
been educated ; but when a stranger enters the 
district where he resides with his family and 
connections, and confides property to his care, 
the inhabitant of no country is found either 
more hospitable, or more honourable. Concern- 
ing the inhabitants of the country called Malo- 
Russia, a French gentleman, who had long resided 
among them, assured us he used neither locks 
to his doors nor to his coffers ; and among the 
Cossacks, as in Sweden, a trunk may be sent un- 
locked, for a distance equal to five hundred 
miles, without risking the loss of any part of 
its contents. Mr. Rowan, banker of Moscow, was 
compelled, by the breaking of his carriage, to 
abandon it in the midst of the territory of the 
Don Cossacks ; and it was afterwards brought 
