1 .seasoned goat-skins, which arc continually tossed about until
2 it begins to ferment. According to the opinion of the Kirgises,
3 the kumiss is better when the milk is procured from mart
4 of different colours. The fresher it is, the better for the health.
5 To give the reader a slight synopsis of niv journey from
6 Bokhara to Russia, a little map, on which the thirty-five stations'
7 are traced, is annexed.
8 On my arrival at Orenburg, I wa-; greatly delighted to meet
9 with several German generals, who were in the Russian service,
10 and also German physicians. The deep impression which this
11 meeting made upon me, can only be conceived by those who,
12 like mo. hod for several years been deprived of all intercourse
13 with their countrymen. But that enthusiasm was increased
14 still more when 1 was told that a new mode of curing dis¬
15 eases had been discovered, diametrically opposite to that which
16 had hitherto been followed.
17 Who will blame me for having this irresistible and ardent
18 desire to dee Europe, once more? Providence had appeared to
19 yield me an opportunity of extending (he horizon of my know¬
20 ledge, for the benefit. of mankind; and the same internal voice
21 which twenty years before lmd induced me to abandon my
22 friends, my relatives and my dear native country, admonish ’d
23 me also to renounce the favor of u powerful ruler, the prospects
24 of becoming powerful myself, and the influence by means of
25 which I could enjoy the inos! splendid case, in order to be
26 instrumental in introducing a hi . herto unknown healing system.
27 From Orenburg I continued my journey by post over Kazan
28 to Nisbni-Nowgbrod, arid I arrived, without .my material acci¬
29 dents, at. the latter city. It wits just, the time of the fair, to
30 which people from the nearest and remotest countries were
31 flocking, to purchase and s. H their merchandise. Provided
32 as I was with cash, I lent a willing ear to some friends, who,
33 from their local knowledge, advised me not to take ready
34 money with me, but to buy sable skins. They gave me this
35 advice, as sables would nut increase the bulk of my luggage
36 like other merchandise, and added that the skins could he