DON COSSACKS. 
Kuban Tahtary, derived from it the only means 
of sustaining the fatigue and languor caused by 
the heat of the climate and by bad air. 
Dobrinka . The next place we came to was Dobrinka : 
and here, for the first time, we found an 
establishment of Cossacks; although but few 
appeared, and even these were mixed with 
Malo-Russians. The church was new ; a large 
and handsome white building, erected by the 
Emperor Paul. Others of the same nature 
appeared in most of the neighbouring villages. 
That of Dobrinka makes a conspicuous appear- 
ance, several miles before the traveller reaches 
it. If happiness could be found under the 
Russian Government, it might be said to have 
its residence in Dobrinka; a peaceable and 
pleasant spot, full of neat little white cottages, 
tenanted by a healthy, and apparently con- 
tented, society, whose members live in the 
greatest tranquillity, removed from all the spies, 
tax-gatherers, police-officers, and other petty 
despots of the country. We were received 
into one of their court-yards, with a hearty 
welcome and smiling countenances, very dif- 
ferent from the lowering brows, and contracted 
suspicious eyes, to which we had been so often 
accustomed. At sun-set, all the cows belonging 
to the inhabitants came, in one large troop, 
