The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-24

have printing houses Of their own. and issue n
they simply learn parts Of il by heart, without
Which it is wrtttsn. -Still they are not Strict in
keeping away from liquor, rs entoined by the
d Mpniem ' BOUT and ia hardly 1m!1" ever q i touch horse
flesh. except in villages, when reduced to that
staple article OF Tartar diet by dire poverty.
THE SIBERIAN TARTARs.
Nowhere do the assimilative capacities OF the
Great Russians show themselves with such
force as In Siberia. where. from the first. they
assumed the role OF ccnquerors OF all the aborig-
and are looked up to acc9rdinEly-although not
mostly agriculturlsts, who have by no means
Invested themselves Of the habits Of the no
MAIDS. Their honesty. however, is provcrbial.
ing a long list of creditors. lost his ledger in q
fire and could not recall how mnch each Tartar
ness to him he remembered perfectly well. En-
deavoring to make II new list of what was due
to him. he interviewed all his Tartar customers,
tot,ins down.the sum ofeneh mans indebtedness
% him Just as the latter stated 1t to him. What
was the MERCHANTS astonishment when. har;
for by these conscientious creditors amounted
exactly to the sum that he rembembered was
set down in his lost ledger as the total OF their
debts: not 4 man among the Tartars but gave
the amount of his debt correctly, The tribe
among which this occurred were the S~agaytzy
of tho Christian fnith, but II is said they are no
exception. The other local tribes are the Kat.
shintzy, Kqyba, the Tartnrs OF KyziII, and OF
golian type. while the small local tribes OF the
kargass and the Arites, are more like the Mand-
chu race. Half nomads as they all nre, they
are born horsemen, and II Is said that even
when one OF them gets stupidity drunk on araka
always clings to his horse. the animal bringing
him safely home. The great majority OF the
mite persuasion. and they are reported as ex-
tremely intelligent and capable OF cultivation.
THE SoGAY TARTARs.
Tartars present striking contrasts among
a.nar.lfn M . n thn Local . ythnu
belong to, The Nogay Tartar breeders OF
enormous herds of cattle. with which they roam
suin Of T~auris-appcar to be Iineal descendants
OF the robbcr hordes that dcvaItated Russia in
nSs ne,rIe Mons Ssh.nr Tyne tn are " Very /" crafty ntSit i do-
ce!tful. and avRricious; however, they are not
,nch robbers now as petty thieves; They Just
are perfect slaves to the men and wear II silver
ring In the left %nostril; Being Mohammedan
keep several wives each; stlll marital fidelity
ranks high among them.
TIE CRIMEAN TARTARs PROPER.
The TaurIs was formerly the stronghold OF
the ~l'artars, from which they sent out their pill
Laying expeditions north: nowadays, however,
that Is n most beautiful locality, whose inhabi-
tants live by the cultivation Of the soil. and In
tho extreme south by fruit growing. Many
Iartars emigrnted from there as soon ms the pom
lnsnla was conquered in tho Inst century by
Catherine H.: agnin, between the years 1850
1883, II great exodus took place there; nearly
two hundred thousand people cmiGrnted TO
Turkey, and even now the emigration Of trl-
mean 1artnrs continues on n small scale. They
are q lazy, easY-goiuE.. gossipy people, having
no liking for any work, lORting all through the
winter, knowing that the lato summer and fall
will bring them q perfect shower Of money from
Russian tourists who throng the southern coast
or the Crimea, n locality crowned alike FOR us
grand scenery and its viylfying climate Tho
local Tartars engage as guides TO tourists, and in
that role, with their picturesque costumes ana
remarkable beauty, they hro In thorough keep
ing with the bowitchinE surroundings.
Tho Tartar women are not 80 handsome as ne
men, and, besides, they mar their looks by pas
tering their faces and dycing their LAIR, palms,
and mills q brownish red. Again, they arc
spoiled by their indolcnco spending days nitcr
days qunttlng on cushions thrust over the rugs
really Il hard u agree To the definition That
ranks the nborlgines Of the south coast Of the
Crimea with the Tartnrs. F9T, 1t Is Y well
Client mounds. 50 plentiful IN the Tanris, that
IN prehiStoric times that place was settled with
a people supposed to be tho Goths, Then. IN
there, with which the story OF the suftcrings of
Iphlgenia Is so closely bound, Later on tho
Genoese built there their forts and cities.
der the onslaught OF triumphant Islam. First
the blooming country was swept by the hordes
o. The Tartar Khan Gerey. and later on by the
And now the population Of the CrlmeA shows
traces or all these nationalities., The classical
beauty Of the local Tartars, combined with "a
llRht color and many other traits, seems TO bear |
TO the noble blood OF tho ancient
nrseks And The modimyel Italians o9uIsihg in
their veins they, have also, retained a great
larry, and have a much softer pronunciation
Lhan other TRrtArs. BESIDES their descent, the
TTSrah..n streak q blood IN them as IN all the
HiLuted by the constant additions 70 their
hAIemsot foreign women, VINO were got either
Dy raids abroad or BY purchase.
THE KALMUcKs.
n Il t. hardly right to place IL the ranks q the