[Footnote 40: The Zaporoghians had their trowsers made (when they had the means to do so) of the most costly cloth, especially red, and to express their contempt of luxury, besmeared them with tar. The _nagaïkas_ is the Cossack whip, a weapon the impression of which many a Frenchman bore on his back, after the invasion of Russia by Napoleon the Great. Its handle is not more than half a yard long, the lash, of the same length, consists of an iron wire, plaited all round with leathern thongs, terminating in a square piece of leather, about an inch in width. A blow of the nagaïka may break a bone, and a well-aimed stroke of its square end may cut out a piece of flesh.] [Footnote 41: Heydukes (properly haydooks) formed a select body in the Polish army, and were recruited among the tallest and strongest men.] [Footnote 42: For an account of the Sseim, see the note at page 163.] [Footnote 43: The introduction of Popish rites into the Greek Church.] [Footnote 44: _Boonchook_ is the name of a Turkish standard, consisting of a horse-tail nailed to a pole. The Cossacks also used them besides banners, which bore the image of the Saviour or the Virgin.] [Footnote 45: All this is truly historical, and will be readily believed by any one in the least acquainted with the national character of the Poles.] FINIS.