Volume 1

Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c. : including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836.

  • Spencer, Edmund.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Travels in Circassia, Krim-tartary, &c. : including a steam voyage down the Danube, from Vienna to Constantinople, and round the Black sea, in 1836. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tries, I was obliged to proceed with the utmost caution; and I would counsel the traveller who may visit Circassia to pursue a similar line of conduct: for though, at the present moment, the name of an Englishman is revered in every part of Circassia, it is uncertain how long this feeling may continue, should the mountaineers find that their hopes of assistance from England are not realized. That 1 some such expectations have been held out, is an undoubted fact; but I feel assured that the name of Great Britain has been used without authority by one of the eastern powers, as an incentive to encourage the Caucasians in their hostility to Russia. Independently of this, many difficulties and dangers beset the path of the traveller; if on his voyage he escape the Russian cruisers, which have been doubled since the affair of the Vixen, he will not be allowed to proceed into the interior of Circassia, unless he be provided with letters of recommendation, and a konak; that is, a chieftain or elder, who will be answer- able for his good conduct, and, above all, for his not being a Russian spy.