DON COSSACKS. 
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CHAP. 
XIII. 
' ' 
Commerce 
of Teller - 
kask. 
five or six armed Cossacks appear, they remain 
in ambush : if only two or three, they attack 
these by surprise ; but even then they will run 
away if the Cossacks have time to fire. II dis- 
covered in their concealment, and interrogated 
who they are, they assume an humble aspect, 
and declare themselves friends. Some of the 
Circassians were prisoners at /lx ay, when we 
were there. The Cossacks, and all the inhabi- 
tants of the Asiatic coasts of the Black Sea, call 
the Circassians Tcherkess, and Tcherkessi, a fur- 
ther confirmation of remarks before' made con- 
cerning the etymology of the word Tcherkusle. 
If it were necessary to make any addition to 
what has been already written, with regard to 
the relation they bear to the Cossacks and to the 
other inhabitants of the Ukraine, many curious 
circumstances might be alleged ; such, for ex- 
ample, as the mode of accounting money, which 
is the same among the Malo- Russians and Cir- 
cassians. There are now Malo- Russians living in 
the Caucasian mountains. The Circassians, more- 
over, left their name in the appellation of a town 
built upon the Dnieper. 
The commerce of the Cossacks, and other in- 
habitants of Tcherkask, is very various. The 
principal articles of their exports are, fish, iron, 
caviare, and a little wine; although, generally, 
