Costumes of Europe: with descriptions of the people, manners, and customs (1852)
Philadelphia : C.G. Henderson & Co., 1852 · leaf 61
four hours telling tales or sing-ing songs. Most people in Europe areafraid of Gipsies; and the truth is thatthese people are great thieves, neglectingno opportunity to pilfer food or property,They have been known to carry youngchildren from the cradle, and afterwardsbring them up as their own.… … COSSACKS. COSSACKS. Here are some very rough lookingcharacters. It would be hard to describetheir dress, since no two of them appearto be dressed alike. These are Cossacks—a people who in battle are among themost terrible horsemen of any known atthe present day. They live on the bor-ders of Eussia…
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