days journey in length, and in breadth from five days journey down to one, as is the case in the distance between the Kútassí Abáza and the Shána Circassians. These forty days journey are marked by forty large rivers, which issue from the mountains situated between the Abáza and Circassians, and run into the Black Sea. Altogether seventy high mountains, with two thousand villages, of which I know nothing, as I did not visit them. Within this country are some hundred thousand men, without law or religion, who, however, if you call them infidels will kill you, and if you call them Moslims are delighted, but if they become real Moslims, they are very good ones. They are a wild roving people descending from the Arabs, Koreishites, from Abáza. The tribes of Abáza in the mountains are the Posúkhí, seven thousand turbulent men; Akhchissí, ten thousand men; Besleb, seven thousand five hundred brave people; Mukellebeh, thirty thousand men; Waipígha, one thousand men; Jághras, eight hundred weak men; Ala Koreish, five hundred men; Chíchakores, three thousand men; Mácha, two thousand men; and Páncháresh, four thousand men; these ten turbulent tribes never mix with the Abázas of the coast. The bravest and best of them are the Sadasha. On the coast and in the mountains there are altogether twenty-five tribes. _Specimen of the Abáza Language._ One, _if_; two, _weba_; three, _ikhba_; four, _beshna_; five, _khoba_; six, _fiba_; seven, _bezba_; eight, _aba_; nine, _sheba_; ten, _zoba_; eleven, _akzoba_; twelve, _webazoba_. Come, _wai_; go, _úchi_; seat, _otúi_; get up, _okil_; don’t go, _omchin_; boy, _arísh_; I go, _sicháb_; wife, _abharesh_; I don’t go, _sikiján_; why, _úzú_. _Specimen of the Sadasha Abáza._ One, _weh_; two, _toka_; three, _sitte_; four, _pali_; five, _ashú_; six, _korn_; seven, _ipli_; eight, _ogha_; nine, _ipfi_; ten, _zú_; eleven, _wehzú_; twelve, _tokazú_. Bread, _sakha_; meat, _gha_; water, _beri_; cheese, _feh_; curd, _chehwáh_; pear, _kha_; raisin, _mosú_; figs, _lakhmak_; chesnuts, _akshú_; salt, _laka_; seat, _otúz_; get up, _odeto_; don’t go, _omke_; I go, _síkú_; where do you go, _síoken_; I am busy, I go, _súwú_ _shakagh síkú_; bring a girl, _zinje doko_; I found no girl, but a boy, _zinje dokalmet zeni okhad_, &c.