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At once bold and crafty, he contrived gradually to prepare a sudden and impetuous warfare, and to cover his plans for our destruction with demonstrations of kindness and honeyed words. But at length, after so many days of illusion, the charm was all at once dispelled. A single Cossack dissolved it.
The chief of the Russian detachment received a letter from a Cossack Colonel, V. N. Domojiroff, containing the order to disarm immediately the Chinese garrison, to arrest all Chinese officials for transport to Baron Ungern at Urga, to take control of Uliassutai, by force if necessary, and to join forces with his detachment.
At this juncture the big Cossack poked his head from beneath the rock. "Are you coming in here or not?" he demanded in a gruff voice. "Coming," said Hal, dropping to his knees. "Look here, Hal," said Stubbs, "I don't like the looks of this place. Maybe we had better stay outside." "Nonsense," Edwards spoke up at this point. "The man means us no harm."
There stood the great, proud man looking at his warriors as they manoeuvred before him. Two-thirds of them were cavalry, and each horseman was mounted on a beautiful blood charger of Cossack or English breed, and arrayed in a superb uniform. The blaze, glitter and glory were too much for my eyes, and I was frequently obliged to turn them away.
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I had been out riding once with the Chicago man, in a sledge, with three horses abreast, all runaway horses, and the driver was a Cossack who lashed the horses into a run every smooth place he found in the road, and it was like running to a fire, so I got the Chicago fellow to go with me and we found the Cossack, and he was drunker than usual.
The great river Amur, flowing far through Eastern Siberia to the Pacific, was discovered in 1643 by a party of Cossack hunters, who launched their boats on this magnificent stream and sailed down it to the sea. It was Chinese soil through which it ran, its waters flowing through the province of Manchuria, the native land of the emperors of China. But to this the Russian pioneers paid little heed.
The Cossack, coming second, had stumbled over the prostrate body before either had any suspicion of danger; and in a second, both were cut to pieces by knives traded to the Indians the day before for otter skins. Shevyrin, the third man, happened to be carrying an axe.
Neither has been to war; and you say that we have no right, and that there is no need for the Zaporozhtzi to set out on an expedition." "Well, it is not fitting." "Then it must be fitting that Cossack strength should be wasted in vain, that a man should disappear like a dog without having done a single good deed, that he should be of no use to his country or to Christianity! Why, then, do we live?
On the march or in bivouac, they stole anything they saw; but as no one trusted them, petty thieving became more difficult, so they decided to operate on a grand scale. They organised themselves into bands, and at night they would don peasant headgear and slip out of the bivouac to meet at an agreed spot, then they would return to the camp shouting the Cossack war-cry of "Hourra!
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