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Updated: May 27, 2025
They were all great travellers; they had visited the shores of Anatolia, the salt marshes and steppes of the Crimea, all the rivers great and small which empty into the Dnieper, and all the fords and islands of the Dnieper; they had been in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Turkey; they had sailed all over the Black Sea, in their double-ruddered Cossack boats; they had attacked with fifty skiffs in line the tallest and richest ships; they had sunk many a Turkish galley, and had burnt much, very much powder in their day; more than once they had made foot-bandages from velvets and rich stuffs; more than once they had beaten buckles for their girdles out of sequins.
The Cossacks rowed swiftly on in the narrow double-ruddered boats rowed stoutly, carefully shunning the sand bars, and cleaving the ranks of the birds, which took wing rowed, and talked of their hetman. Thoma Grigroovitch had one very strange eccentricity: to the day of his death he never liked to tell the same thing twice.
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