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OF THE SEA OF AZOF. 
masquerade. We counted, at one time, the in- 
dividuals of fifteen different countries assembled 
together ; and they were not more remarkable 
in the exhibition of their various costume, than 
for the harmony and friendship which prevailed 
among them. No one seemed to regard the 
other as a stranger. In their associations and 
intermarriages, each individual preserves his 
mode of dress, and exercises his rule of worship, 
without making the smallest sacrifice to eti- 
quette (by any alteration in his national habits), 
or giving the slightest offence to the parties with 
whom he is connected. Even the common dis- 
putes and petty quarrels, which are so frequent 
in the markets of large commercial towns, ap- 
peared to be unknown among the motley tribes 
which peopled this place ; yet Babel itself could 
hardly have witnessed a greater variety of lan. 
guages. The fifteen nations, whose representa- 
tives we observed simultaneously assembled, 
may be thus enumerated : 
1. Russians, 9. French, 
2. Greeks, ]0. English, 
3. Armenians, 11. Turks, 
4. NagayTahtars* (Hamaxolii) , 12. Italians, 
5. Calmueks ( Hippophagi ), 13. Malo-Russians, 
6. Cossacks, 14. Prussians, 
7. Germans, 15. Hungarians. 
8. Poles, 
(2) “ The Nagay Tartars begin to the west of Marinopol : they 
cultivate a good deal of corn, yet they dislike bread as an article of 
food. 
ciiap. 
xv. 
' > 
Various 
Inhabi- 
tants of 
Taganrog. 
