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chap, supper, began to sing. — So relative is human 
■ ‘ happiness ! 
Distinction We left Rossochinshaia on the eighteenth ol 
CoS of June. All the Cossack inhabitants of the steppes, 
Indof'tC from Kasanhaia to Tcherkask, have light brown 
Don ' hair, and are a different race from the genuine 
Cossacks of the capital, and those dwelling in 
stanitzas along the Don. Lieutenant-Colonel 
Papof, a Cossack officer of the highest merit 
and talent, of whom we shall hereafter speak, 
told us that the people of the steppes were 
emigrants, of recent date, from Poland. 
It would be tedious to notice, upon every 
occasion, the extraordinary number of tumuli, 
seen during the whole route ; but the Reader 
is requested to bear in mind the curious fact 
of their being everywhere in view. Close to 
the post-house at Pichovskaia, the first place 
where we halted this day, there were two 
mounds of a very remarkable size ; one on each 
side of the road. The horses here were without 
shoes, and the road was as excellent as it is 
possible to imagine. The whole country re- 
sembled one vast verdant lawn. Stories of 
danger were renewed : the lances of our Cossack 
escort were twelve feet in length ; and an 
