Mod* «f Travelling mcio»* Uir lnm«..y 01 the Dan Cvuatkt. 
CHAP. XII. 
TERRITORY OF THE DON COSSACKS. 
Appearance of the Cossacks at Kasankaia — House of the 
Ataman — Ideal Dangers of the Country — Voyage ly 
Water — Amusements and Dances of the People — Depar- 
ture — 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 Mops — Stragglers from the Army — Distinction, 
between Cossacks of the Steppes and of the Don — 
Kamenskaia — Iron Foundries ofLugan — Etymology of 
the word Tanais — Numerous Camps of Calmucks — 
Approach to Axay. 
There is something extremely martial, and chap. 
even intimidating, in the first appearance of a \ — 
