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Author: John Augustus Longworth
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Category : Circassia
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Author: John Augustus Longworth
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Category : Circassia
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Author: John Augustus Longworth
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ISBN: 9781230283043
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ... The guest-house--A Circassian dinner--Impression created by my arrival--Odd notions--Condition of the sex--Circassian beauty--Presents. Our Konag Bey stood ready to receive nie, and leading my horse opposite to the guest-house, assisted me to alight. He then ushered me into the house, and with his own hands relieved me of my arms, and hung them against the wall. A silken couch had been spread for me in a corner of the room, on one side of the hearth; at the head of this was a pile of cushions: with the exception of these, and a mat and cushion laid down for the Hadji, there was no other furniture in the room; but the walls, gleaming with the weapons of the guests, presented anything but a naked appear THE GUEST-HOUSE. 43 ancc. For some time, everybody remained standing but myself; after a short silence, the words of welcome were exchanged, when another pause took place. Our host then desired the principal guests to sit down, but at first on no account would he be seated himself; after repeated pressing, however, he crouched himself down at a respectful distance on the floor. I have been thus minute in detailing these ceremonies, as they mark the reception of a stranger in every house in Circassia. The room itself was of an oblong shape, eight yards by four; the walls were constructed of stakes and hurdles, plaistered on each side with a coat of light-coloured earth; the floor was of hard earth, which I observed was every now and then carefully watered. and swept. The thatch above, supported by rafters in a triangular form, descended from the roof over the walls in large projecting caves, serving in summer for verandahs. Extending from the walls almost to the middle of the room in a semicircle of about two yards in diameter, and at three...
Author: J. A. Longworth
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Category : Circassia
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: John A. Longworth
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ISBN: 9781294071273
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: J. A. Longworth
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ISBN: 9780461032031
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Author: J. A. Longworth
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Category : Circassia
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Author: John Augustus Longworth
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ISBN: 9781230365619
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Pages : 74
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...No sooner were they aware of them than their cavalry dashed at full gallop along the shore to 176 DIFFERENCES WITH THE COUNCIL. overtake the steamer. There was for some time, I was told, a well-contested race between them. Steam, however, with the start it had obtained, outstripped on this occasion the Abbasian courser. The Russians succeeded in landing their men and setting fire to the ship. The Circassians had only the poor satisfaction of killing twenty of them in their retreat. The differences existing between Nadir and the council were not confined to the subject of his powder. Having made up their minds that he must be an English ambassador, they would listen to no disclaimer he made to the contrary. His obstinacy on this point only served to irritate them, and they ended by telling him in plain terms, that if not an English ambassador, he must be a Russian spy. In this disagreeable dilemma I found him when I arrived at Ouwya, and we immediately laid our heads together to find out what was best to be done under it. We were assisted in our deliberations by Meh-met, who came the day after his brother, Ali Bey, who, if inferior to him in intelligence, surpassed him, as he did every other mortal I have met, in bulk and stature. Also among those who, under existing circumstances, were necessarily admitted to Nadir's confidence, were the individuals of his own suite--a rather motley train, HADJI PAULO. 177 picked up promiscuously in his travels. There was, in the first place, his dragoman, a Tartar or Polish renegade--a mongrel, or cross of the European and Asiatic, a sort of nondescript not uncommon in the Levant. He had served as interpreter to some of our most celebrated orientalists, but had chiefly spent his time in rambling all over...
Author: J. A. Longworth
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260631534
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Excerpt from A Year Among the Circassians, Vol. 1 of 2 I speak advisedly when I say that no other Europeans, besides those I have enumerated, have ever visited Circassia, always excepting the army of the invaders. The landing of an European there is too extraordinary an event not to be deeply imprinted on the recollection of the whole population, nor has such occurred within the memory of man that forms not still a common topic of conversation there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: J. A. Longworth
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Category : Circassia (Russia)
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Author: John Augustus Longworth
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016681711
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