DON COSSACKS. 
had obtained : this we afterwards found to be 
really carrion. A dead horse, lying in the 
ditch surrounding the town on the land side, 
had attracted about thirteen dogs, which we 
found greedily devouring what remained ; the 
Calmuck having contested the prize with them 
a few minutes before, and helped herself to as 
much of the mangled carcase as she could 
carry away. The post-master kept a tame 
surohe, as large as a common terrier, perfectly 
domesticated. This animal, he told us, only 
remained with him one half of the year ; that 
it constantly retired, for the other six months, 
to a hole in the ground, near the house, and 
there buried itself. Upon the approach of 
spring, it regularly returned to its patron; 
resuming its former habits, sitting upright, and 
begging for bread and herbs as before. It 
would always come to him, during the summer, 
when called by the name of Washy ; but all 
the bawling he could use, at the mouth of its 
burrow, never drew it forth in the winter 
season. 
Higher up the Danactz, near the spot where 
it receives the Lugan, are the Lugan iron-works 
and cannon-foundry , belonging to the Crown : 
these, at the time we travelled in the Cossack 
