XVII.
MAY,
1765.
[Emin,
having
12,
000
men
under
him
pretends
to
have
formed
a
plan
of
attacking
Georgians
-
Letter
written
by
the
faithless
Marian
and
his
reply
-
Sukias
the
monk
again
appears
at
Boragan
with
a
fresh
letter
from
Bishop
Hovnan
-
Sets
out
with
his
thirty
"wolf-like
commanders"
-
Chachan,
where
he
receives
great
kindness
-
Numbers
of
armed
men
come
to
Emin
expecting
to
be
led
against
Georgians,
whilst
he
is
privately
meditating
how
to
make
fools
of
them
-
Slave
market
at
Andia
-
Lezguis
taking
a
child
of
six
to
be
sold
-
Their
only
support
the
sale
of
slaves
-
Argues
with
his
followers
with
no
effect,
finally
dismisses
them
-
Journeys
on
to
Khunzakh
-
Mahomed
Khan
the
nutzal
and
his
wife
-
Her
humanity
contrasted
with
behaviour
of
a
Roman
Catholic
priest
on
the
death
of
a
young
Englishman
-
Nutzal
gives
Emin
escort
and
passport
-
Sets
out
for
Catukh
-
Ridiculous
affair
at
the
house
of
a
Lezgui
-
Hajy
Mustaphas
kindness
to
him.
]
Emin,
at
the
latter
end
of
May,
made
the
list
of
his
mountaineers,
who
were
full
twelve
thousand
men;
and
after
holding
an
assembly
at
the
place
of
rendezvous
near
the
hot
waters,
three
miles
from
Boragan,
he
thought
proper
to
tell
thirty-five
of
their
chiefs
only
to
keep
in
readiness,
while
the
troops
remained
in
their
respective
places
for
further
orders;
that
when
he,
with
those
thirty-five
commanders,
should
reach
Avar,
after
five
days
march,
and
proceed
from
thence
in
four
days
to
Georgia,
very
near
half
way
between
the
two
countries,
to
consult
with
Mahomed
Khan
the
nutzal,
(which,
in
the
Avar
language,
means
a
king,
)
he
might
then
send
back
those
chiefs
to
conduct
the
troops
thither,
and
then
fall
at
once
upon
the
Georgians,
while
they
were
drinking
wine
with
their
mistresses.
"This
surprize,
"
he
added,
"will
make
the
conquest
easier,
and
will
be
the
means
of
saving
of
you;
whereas,
in
a
pitched
battle,
for
the
first
time,
the
fall
of
many
brave
fellows
cannot
be
avoided.
"
They
had
before
sworn
solemnly
on
the
Alcoran,
first,
to
acknowledge
his
superiority;
secondly,
never
to
contradict
his
order.
When
he
ended,
they
all
agreed,
pulled
off
their
caps,
and
marched
away;
being
assured
in
their
own
minds
that
he
was
provoked,
and
would
not
be
reconciled
to
Heraclius,
though,
in
truth,
he
would
not
have
changed
one
Georgian
Christian
for
all
the
Mahometans
in
Asia,
but
continued
a
true
Armenian.
Emin
left
them
satisfied
with
their
own
opinion,
and
kept
himself
in
readiness,
when
he
received
the
last
letter
from
the
faithless
Marian,
sent
by
an
Armenian
gentleman,
an
ensign
in
the
Russian
service,
a
near
relation
of
hers,
on
purpose
to
be
delivered
by
his
own
hand.
The
purport
of
it
was
as
follows:
"My
dear
Sir,
and
justly-displeased
friend,
We
have
acted
wrong
in
every
respect,
disdainfully,
ungenerously,
and
imprudently,
in
not
answering
your
kind
interesting
letter.
To
think
of
assigning
reasons
for
our
conduct,
would
be
unnatural.
We
acknowledge
our
misbehaviour
against
you;
but
are
in
great
hopes
your
humane
heart
will
condescend
to
forgive
us.
Be
persuaded
and
assured,
that
poor
Marian
is
your
own,
and
is
perfectly
convinced,
she
never
can
be
happy
without
you;
nor
you,
she
is
sure,
without
her.
O,
cruel
Fate!
what
affliction
hast
thou
brought
on
me!
My
poor
grandmother
sends
her
prayers
and
blessings
to
you,
-
she
is
as
much
afflicted
as
your
poor
Marian
is
unhappy.
Should
you
not
relent
and
come
to
her,
be
pleased
to
write
a
single
line,
that
she
may
have
the
satisfaction
at
least
of
taking
it
to
the
grave
with
her.
Adieu!
I
remain
to
lament
my
distracted
situation
till
death.
And
am,
"
&c.
The
Answer.
"My
dear
Marian,
I
received
your
letter,
acknowledging
most
honestly
your
fault,
which
I
have
passed
over
with
all
my
soul:
but
am
sorry
to
say,
the
balsam
you
now
send,
is
come
too
late
to
cure
the
wounds
of
a
heart
that
preferred
you
to
all
the
world.
For
the
future,
I
shall
esteem
you
as
my
dear
sister.
Think
that
you
have
a
brother
going
to
die
for
his
countrys
cause.
Make
yourself
easy;
marry
whom
you
please,
and
be
happy.
When
you
cannot
avoid
remembering,
that
no
one
else
would
have
the
same
fortitude,
or
act
with
so
much
honour,
as
Emin
has
done
in
regard
to
you;
recollect
what
a
man
you
may
regret
the
loss
of
-
a
true
lover:
-
but
content
your
mind
with
having
found
a
brother,
who
will
continue
so
all
the
days
of
his
life.
Adieu!"
Emin
being
clear
of
that
engagement,
the
monk
Suciaz,
then
collector
for
St.
John
the
Baptists
monastery,
whom
he
had
seen
before
in
Astrakhan,
arrived
at
Boragan,
and
told
him,
that
bishop
Hovnan,
the
head
of
that
monastery,
had
in
writing,
ordered
him
(the
monk
Suciaz)
to
give
Emin
all
the
money
collected
in
Russia
from
the
Armenians
there,
being
the
sum
of
646
tumans,
equal
to
12,
900
rupees.
He
said,
he
had
refused
before
600
zeckins
at
Tiffliz,
brought
by
Melich
Stephen,
when
he
had
but
200
rupees.
Now
he
had
an
allowance
of
100
pounds,
sent
by
his
patron
the
duke
of
Northumberland,
which
would
be
sufficient
for
the
time:
nor
was
he
sure
whether
his
chimerical
plan
would
succeed
or
not.
The
sum
of
646
tumans
would
have
been
in
a
manner
an
enemy
in
his
bosom
among
those
wild
and
almost
savage
Lazguis.
He
therefore
bid
the
monk
to
keep
the
money
to
himself,
or
take
it
to
the
bishop;
for
he
was
chased
like
a
tyger
from
place
to
place,
not
having
a
hole
of
his
own
to
creep
in,
where
he
might
have
a
little
time
to
fetch
breath.
The
monk
agreed
that
he
was
in
the
right;
but
begged
to
make
so
free,
as
to
lay
before
Emin
his
sentiments
on
the
proposition
he
was
going
to
make.
He
said,
he
would
hear
with
pleasure,
for
the
sake
of
his
only
friend
bishop
Hovnan.
Then
the
monk
began
fawning
and
cringing,
and
said,
"Sir,
you
have
devoted
yourself
entirely
to
fall
a
sacrifice,
with
hearty
zeal,
for
the
cause
of
your
countrymen,
bidding
farewel
to
the
pleasures
of
the
world;
and
having
given
many
examples
of
purity,
have
overcome
many
temptations
before,
and
now
have
refused
a
fair
princesss
offer,
with
a
great
estate,
who
might
make
any
one
else
happy.
On
the
receipt
of
an
answer
from
you,
I
saw
her
shedding
tears
of
blood,
and
lamenting
her
thoughtless
behaviour
which
made
her
lose
her
dear
lover.
The
Armenians
at
Astrakhan,
on
the
other
hand,
learning
the
reason
of
this,
pitied
her
deplorable
case,
but
admired
your
heroic
attachment
to
her,
and
more
particular
your
love
for
your
country.
From
what
I
have
been
told
by
some
merchants,
you
could
live
among
that
glorious
people,
the
English,
with
respect
and
comfort:
and
I
was
an
eye-witness,
at
Moscow,
that
the
Russians
would
be
very
glad
to
receive
you
in
their
Imperial
service:
but
to
that
you
did
not
show
the
smallest
inclination;
and
rather
chose
to
leave
them
all
behind,
than
break
your
undaunted
resolution:
nor
will
you
accept
this
small
sum
of
646
tumans
by
the
desire
of
my
lord
bishop
Hovnan.
After
all,
my
intreaty
is,
that
you
will
not
marry
any
Mahometan
princes
daughter
in
the
country
of
Dagistan,
for
fear
of
losing
your
Christian
character.
I
know
they
will
be
pressing
to
fix
you
there.
I
know
you
will
not
renounce
(God
forbid!)
your
enlightened
religion:
-
but
what
will
be
the
consequence
of
such
a
marriage,
when
you
have
children,
who,
in
course,
must
be
brought
up
in
the
false
Mahometan
faith?
What
will
you
answer
then
before
our
Blessed
Saviour?
Therefore
I
beseech
you
to
have
compassion
on
your
own
conscience,
-
make
me
easy
on
that
head,
-
and
excuse
me
for
making
so
bold
with
you.
"
Emin
said,
"In
what
manner
can
I
give
you
assurance?"
The
monk
said,
"Swear,
by
the
grave
of
St.
John
the
Baptist,
and
the
second
martyrdom
of
St.
Stephen.
"
Emin,
with
great
willingness,
immediately
swore
by
both
the
holy
saints:
he
only
said
to
the
monk,
"Though
you
said
so
much
before
in
my
favour,
yet
I
am
sorry
to
find
you
so
weak,
as
not
to
know
better
the
strength
of
my
faith,
or
my
real
character,
who
was
born
and
baptised
a
Christian,
and
will
die
such,
if
the
whole
world
were
turned
Mahometans.
"
He
could
not
help
adding,
that
he
wished,
with
all
his
heart,
that
the
monk,
and
all
his
sect,
had
been
possessed
of
the
tenth
part
of
his
faith
in
Jesus
Christ.
If
the
monk
had
foreseen
the
cutting
answer
Emin
made,
he
would
never
have
opened
his
lips.
Thus
ended
the
conversation
between
two
Armenians,
-
one
of
them
an
ecclesiastic,
the
other
a
plain
layman
and
a
soldier.
To
be
brief,
he
bought
a
Circassian
horse;
the
monk
made
him
a
present
of
another;
a
third
he
procured
for
his
baggage;
and
having
hired
a
Tartar
servant,
he
set
out
with
the
thirty
wolf-like
commanders,
and
entered
their
country,
Chachan,
half
a
days
journey
from
Boragan,
when
the
Armenians
in
that
place
took
for
granted
that
he
went,
of
his
own
accord,
like
a
sheep
to
be
slaughtered
and
devoured,
not
thinking
that
he
was
one
of
them;
and
that
they
behaved
to
him
with
a
hundred
times
more
tenderness
and
hospitality
than
the
Georgians,
or
their
princes:
-
nay,
more
than
his
own
relations.
He
stayed
a
fortnight
at
that
first
stage,
where
Aly
Sultan,
the
prince
of
Chachan,
the
head
of
all
the
twenty-nine,
made
his
lady,
with
her
two
sisters,
sit
like
taylors
to
make
his
cloaths,
and
fit
them
to
his
liking,
with
all
the
cheerfulness
imaginable.
Emin
thought
himself
happy
as
if
he
had
been
in
England,
and
began
to
forget
all
the
uneasiness
of
his
mind
in
Georgia.
He
marched
back
again
with
them
to
the
hot
waters
of
Boragan,
for
the
purpose
of
bathing;
and
in
the
evening,
lodged
at
Kachatur
the
Armenians
house,
where
he
stayed
two
days.
This
made
them
satisfied.
They
were
astonished
to
see
those
wolves
of
chiefs
standing
as
tame
as
lambs
before
him,
and
not
sitting
without
his
order.
After
he
had
taken
leave
of
his
countrymen,
he
marched
up
to
the
mountains;
it
was
a
five
days
stage;
but
the
chiefs
begged
him
to
make
it
fifteen
days,
by
halting
in
every
village
three
days;
in
which
time
they
killed
1,
500
sheep
and
thirty
oxen,
and
boiled
them
in
large
coppers
for
distilling
arrack.
These
were
the
booty
taken
from
the
Armenians,
or
Georgians,
in
the
open
fields.
There
was,
to
be
sure,
such
a
multitude
of
armed
people,
as
would
have
surprized
any
spectator,
as
numerous
as
if
Abubaker,
Omar,
and
Osman,
were
making
their
entry.
All
came
to
see
Emin,
kiss
his
hand,
and
obtain
his
blessings:
but
he
could
not
be
in
the
least
vain
of
all
the
pomp,
he
being
a
Christian,
and
they
Mahometans,
who,
all
the
time,
wished
success
to
him,
and
downfall
to
the
Gavers,
which
made
him
quite
unhappy:
but
he
was
obliged
to
put
on
a
good
countenance,
and
say,
Amen!
and
make
them
believe,
that
they,
having
him
at
their
head,
could
overset
Georgia,
not
in
the
least
suspecting
that
he
was
meditating
how
to
make
fools
of
them.
The
reader
cannot
imagine
the
probability
of
all
this;
and
supposes
it
rather
an
Arabian
tale,
than
an
authentic
narrative,
well
knowing
he
had
no
money,
and
was
not
a
Mahometan,
to
gain
their
affection:
but
he
must
consider
the
disposition
of
those
terrible
savages.
The
leaders
of
those
excursions
have
been
always
Georgians,
from
the
highest
degree
to
the
meanest
of
subjects;
who,
being
oppressed
by
tyrannical
princes
or
masters,
went
over
to
them,
and
being
chosen
by
them
as
their
guides,
marching
at
the
head
of
thousands,
carried
fire
and
sword
through
the
country;
while
the
Georgians
were
sitting
in
banquet-houses,
eating
and
drinking
like
beasts.
Thus
they
destroyed
their
opposers
without
mercy;
drove
the
defenceless
into
captivity,
reserving
the
sturdy
and
the
beautiful
infants
to
themselves,
whom
they
circumcised,
and
adopted
as
their
own
children;
but
sold
the
rest
to
the
Turks
and
Persians.
Therefore,
there
can
be
no
great
merit
in
Emin,
in
being
respected
or
caressed
so
much
by
them,
when
the
head
men
of
them
had
seen
him
with
their
own
eyes,
in
Russia,
taken
much
notice
of;
and
had
been
fighting
against
him
in
several
skirmishes
when
in
Georgia.
A
day
before
his
arrival
at
the
capital
of
Avar
called
Khunzakh,
he
came
upon
a
high
eminence
to
Andia,
a
large
free
town,
where
a
market
of
slaves
is
held:
generally
the
Crim
Tartar
merchants
buy
them.
Here
he,
with
his
thirty
devilish
commanders,
met
five
mountaineer
Lazguis,
who
had
a
Georgian
little
girl,
about
six
years
of
age,
with
a
pair
of
brogues
on
her
delicate
feet,
running
before
them,
like
a
little
lamb,
to
the
market
to
be
sold.
Emin
seeing
that
object
of
pity,
found
his
distracted
heart
splitting,
to
observe
the
condition
of
the
innocent
creature.
He
could
no
longer
help
shedding
tears.
The
men
began
to
handle
her,
and
pull
her
about,
to
see
how
she
was
made,
in
such
a
barbarous
manner
as
to
put
Emin
almost
out
of
patience.
He
told
them,
if
they
wanted
to
buy
the
child,
they
ought
not
to
make
a
football
of
her;
that
they
were
worse
than
the
brute
beasts
to
behave
in
that
manner.
They
all
turned
round
at
once;
but
Aly
Sultan
exclaimed,
"O,
Sir!
if
you
are
possessed
with
a
heart
so
merciful
as
to
be
affected
for
one
slave
girl,
how
can
your
eyes
bear
to
see
many
thousands
of
them
in
that
condition?
You
have
no
treasure
to
pay
your
troops,
-
how
are
we
to
be
paid?
-
We
must
pay
ourselves
in
that
way,
to
obey
your
orders;
otherwise,
you
must
not
expect
that
we
will
fight
for
you
for
nothing!
Since
you
shew
so
much
humanity
toward
a
single
subject
of
your
enemys,
how
much
more
must
you
have
for
your
own
countrymen,
who
make
half
of
the
subjects
of
that
Caffer
Heraclius?
Answer
our
just
question;
or
give
us
permission
to
return
to
our
place.
"
Emin
said,
at
the
instant,
"I
have
no
occasion
for
you:
-
go
your
ways!
if
God
will
prosper
me
with
success,
and
make
me
master
of
money,
I
shall
be
glad
then
to
call
you
into
my
service,
and
treat
you
like
men,
not
like
tygers
or
wolves,
to
let
you
prey
upon
human
bodies:
-
the
former
is
the
doctrine
of
our
Blessed
Saviour
Jesus
Christ;
the
latter
is
that
of
your
prophet
Mahomed.
Now,
brave
fellows!
which
of
the
two
is
the
best?"
They
said,
"That
of
Christ:
but
our
Molaks
tell
us,
that
the
Georgians
are
Caffers,
whose
persons
and
properties
are
made
lawful
prey
to
Musulmen.
"
Emin
said,
"When
the
devil
tells
mankind
to
run
after
wickedness,
are
they
to
follow
that
evil
ones
advice?"
They
answered,
"No;
but
what
shall
we
do
to
live?"
He
said;
"Go,
till
your
lands;
live
by
the
sweat
of
your
brows:
-
God
is
the
creator
of
all,
not
of
the
Musulmen
only:
the
beginning
of
your
own
prayers
tells
you
the
same;
but
you
are
blinded
by
your
own
learned
men,
who
are
wolves
in
sheeps
clothing.
I
ask
you,
if
you
should
like
to
have
your
children
torn
away
out
of
your
arms,
and
your
wives
defiled
before
your
eyes
by
the
Russians?
Or,
do
you
think
that
they
can
do
it,
or
not?"
They
said,
"Yes;
very
easily.
"
He
said,
"On
the
contrary,
they
defended
the
people
of
Dagistan
against
Nadir
Shah,
by
supplying
them
with
ammunition,
which
saved
them
from
becoming
slaves
to
the
Persians.
You
have
forgot
all
that.
Instead
of
being
grateful,
you
go
and
take
the
Georgians
and
Armenians
into
slavery,
who
are
their
fellow
Christians;
(they
still
bore
this
with
patience;
)
and
you
will
not
leave
your
wild
ways,
because
the
deceitful
disciples
of
the
impostor
Mahomed
forbid
you!"
In
this
manner
he
reasoned
almost
an
hour
and
an
half;
they
hanging
their
heads
down,
and
saying
nothing;
but,
according
to
their
custom,
kissed
his
hands,
begging
him
to
pray
for
them,
and
to
remember
that
they
were
always
under
his
command,
whenever
he
should
have
occasion
to
send
for
them.
They
then
went
away
with
as
much
content,
as
if
each
of
them
had
obtained
a
beautiful
Georgian
damsel.
Ali
Sultan,
the
prince
of
Chachan,
never
opened
his
lips;
he
was
a
pensioner
of
the
Russian
government,
but
as
great
a
rogue
as
ever
trod
on
ground.
This
man
hearing
at
Boragan
that
Emin
had
a
little
money,
was
all
the
way
making
free
with
pretended
familiarity,
handling
sometimes
his
bosom-pocket,
sometimes
his
side-pocket,
as
if
he
wanted
some
snuff
that
is
usually
carried
in
a
leather
bag.
Emin,
with
seeming
indifference,
never
took
it
amiss;
but
knowing
the
intention
of
Ali
Sultan,
took
care
to
remove
his
money
from
place
to
place
about
him,
so
as
to
make
the
sharper
prince
believe
that
he
had
none,
and
mortified
him
to
the
very
soul
by
now
and
then
taking
a
zeckin
out
of
his
pocket,
and
giving
it
his
servant
to
buy
some
clothes:
he
took
for
granted
that
Emin
had
the
philosophers
stone,
and
needed
only
to
rub
his
thumb
against
his
finger,
to
produce
gold
whenever
he
wanted
it.
The
next
day
they
arrived
at
Khunzakh,
where
he
was
received
with
great
politeness
by
Mahomed
Khan,
the
nutzal,
or
king,
to
whom
this
Ali
Sultan
was
a
relation.
After
some
days,
he
well
learned
the
temper
of
the
nutzal,
and
that
he
was
not
a
great
friend
of
Ali;
for
he
said,
that
Ali
was
a
very
treacherous
false
man,
although
he
was
a
relation
of
his;
that
he
often
behaved
not
like
a
man
of
honour,
and
several
times
brought
a
party
of
Russian
Cossacks,
and
drove
away
the
flocks
of
his
own
clan,
for
the
sake
of
his
paltry
pension
of
twenty
tumans
a
year,
which
is
no
more
than
400
rupees;
and
in
gratitude
for
Emins
goodness,
who
pacified
his
own
people
(meaning
those
12,
000
men
who
were
going
to
cut
him
in
pieces,
when
at
Boragan),
from
that
place
to
this
he
had
been
studying
to
find
out
where
his
money
was,
forgetting
that
he
had
sworn
fidelity
to
him
upon
the
Alkoran.
He
added,
"That
man
(meaning
Ali
Sultan)
is
neither
a
true
Musulman
nor
a
Christian;
he
is
a
kizelbah
(or
red-head);
"
meaning
a
Persian
heretic.
Ali
Sultan
finding
Emin
in
a
secure
place,
and
having
made
no
hand
of
him
with
all
his
cunning,
came
to
take
leave.
Emin
said,
"as
you
are
returning
to
your
country
Chachan,
I
well
know
you
will
go
thence
to
Boragan,
where
you
learned
that
I
had
a
sum
of
money,
and
that
you,
a
treacherous
comrade,
could
not
get
it
from
me,
after
trying
all
your
cunning
and
base
arts!
Understand
me;
you
will
see
they
were
satisfied
in
their
minds,
that
their
countryman
Emin
is
not
the
person
they
imagined
would
have
been
deceived
by
Ali
Sultan,
the
prince
of
Chachan,
whom
he
made
no
more
than
a
tool
of,
all
the
way
to
Khunzakh,
the
capital
of
Avar.
"
He
added,
"When
you
go
to
Kizlar,
make
my
compliments
to
the
general;
thank
him
for
his
good
opinion
of
my
principles,
without
having
seen
me!"
This
reprimanding
speech
he
made
in
the
natzals
presence,
who
approved
of
it
with
expressions
of
great
satisfaction;
and
Ali
went
away
dashed
with
chagrin.
Emin,
with
his
servant,
named
Mortazaly,
stayed
as
guests
with
Mahomed
Khan
the
nutzal,
where
he
passed
four
months
as
happy
as
if
he
had
been
in
Europe
with
a
fortune
of
5000l.
a-year.
The
behaviour
of
that
prince
had
never
the
appearance
of
a
Mahomedan,
except
when
he
sat
down
to
prayers.
The
princess
named
Bakher,
his
first
wife,
was
the
daughter
of
Utzmy
Shamkhall,
another
great
prince
of
the
N.
E.
of
Dagestan.
Though
she
out
of
modesty
concealed
herself,
yet
her
politeness
and
hospitality
cannot
be
expressed,
she
sent
every
day
her
lady
of
the
chamber,
the
wife
of
the
cazy,
to
ask
how
Emin
did;
and
besides
the
three
usual
meals,
she
took
care
he
should
have
three
collations
of
fruit,
some
growing
there,
and
some
sent
to
them
from
the
distance
of
five
or
six
days
journey
on
that
high
mountain.
In
regard
to
her
humanity,
they
had
a
Georgian
dumb
slave,
who
one
day
went
to
wash
himself
in
a
pond,
and
was
unfortunately
drowned:
she
lamented
much,
gave
him
a
very
decent
burial,
ordered
six
sheep
to
be
killed,
called
poor
people
to
dine,
and
pray
for
his
soul,
and
was
several
days
after
in
great
concern
for
the
accident.
Emin
sent
into
the
haram,
and
begged
of
her
to
know
if
such
liberality
for
a
Christian
was
allowed
by
the
Mahomedan
laws?
She
sent
for
answer,
that
humanity
was
the
law
of
Nature,
and
greater
than
any
law
made
by
men
in
power.
As
a
contrast
to
this,
Emin
remembers
an
Englishman
named
Gray,
who
died
at
a
Roman
Catholic
priests
quarters,
which
was
in
the
church.
The
black-hearted
fellow,
unknown
to
Emin,
ordered
two
men
to
take
the
corpse
of
the
unfortunate
young
fellow
by
the
legs,
and
throw
it
like
a
dog
into
a
hole.
Gray
paid
him
extraordinarily
well
for
his
board;
yet
the
rigid
monk
did
not
so
much
as
say,
Dust
thou
wast,
to
dust
thou
shalt
return!
Both
the
nutzal
and
his
lady
giving
hints,
that
if
Emin
had
an
inclination
to
command,
he
should
have
in
a
few
days
as
many
thousand
fighting
men
as
he
pleased;
he
said,
he
was
not
a
turn-coat
Georgian,
to
be
actuated
by
false
ambition,
and
ruin
his
country
for
nothing;
but
that
he
should
be
very
glad
to
have
about
twenty
men
to
go
with
him
as
far
as
Catukh,
a
village
four
days
journey
off,
from
whence
it
was
a
journey
of
about
three
or
four
days
to
the
mountains
of
Armenia,
called
Karabag:
that
was
all
he
wished
for:
he
rather
chose
to
die,
than
see
an
Armenian
walk
lame.
This
very
sentiment
made
them
more
fond
of
him
than
before;
and
they
said,
"A
man
who
is
true
to
his
own
country,
will
be
so
to
his
friends;
but
he
that
will
fight
against,
betray,
or
hate
it,
is
a
caffer,
having
neither
honour
nor
principles,
like
the
Georgians,
who
ruin
their
country
with
their
own
hands,
by
shewing
us
Lazguis
the
roads,
passes,
and
every
corner
of
it.
"
Here
Emin,
if
a
digression
may
be
excused,
cannot
help
confessing,
that
he
repented
of
having
taken
an
oath
to
the
Suciaz
Armenian
monk
in
Boragan,
that
he
would
not
marry
among
the
Lazguis,
for
both
the
prince
and
princess
offered
one
of
their
three
daughters
to
him
in
marriage;
but
when
he
confessed
the
truth,
that
he
had
made
a
vow
by
the
grave
of
St.
John,
(whom
they
call
Son
of
Zachariah
Yahya
Pegumber
the
prophet,
)
they
still
admired
Emins
honesty,
and
caressed
him
more
and
more.
Had
they
been
Christians,
he
could
have
lived
and
died
there
very
happily,
finding
among
them
so
much
politeness,
hospitality,
simplicity,
and
true
liberty,
which
might
have
saved
him
many
cringing
postures
at
great
mens
doors
for
a
livelihood.
The
nutzal
would
have
given
him
land
enough,
with
men
for
agriculture,
oxen
to
till
the
ground,
and
flocks
of
sheep
in
abundance:
the
climate
is
wholesome,
and,
with
a
sober
wife,
he
might
have
enjoyed
it
a
hundred
years,
and
with
a
good
conscience
have
died
contented,
without
being
envied
by
the
ambitious
part
of
mankind,
nor
would
his
poor
ears
have
been
plagued
by
the
appellation
of
Prince;
for
let
him
move
on
ever
so
hardly,
the
world
will
cry
out,
Emin
wanted
to
be
king;
-
and
he
might
have
been
one,
if
he
had
sold
his
conscience,
and
abandoned
humanity!
-
Let
the
world
see
his
heart
in
this
imperfect
book;
his
mind
is
as
humble
as
dust,
but
his
ambition
has
always
been
to
see
his
countrymen
free,
which
he
hopes
to
be
the
wish
of
every
honest
man.
When
he
had
well
established
a
friendship
with
the
nutzal,
he
desired
him
to
order
some
of
the
people
to
accompany
him
down
as
far
as
Charr,
or
to
the
Catukh
village,
four
days
journey
to
the
lower
woody
part
of
Dagistan,
originally
belonging
to
the
Georgians,
a
very
plentiful
place,
producing
all
kinds
of
fruit.
They
favoured
him,
besides
twenty
-
five
men,
with
a
letter
to
that
republic,
in
this
form:
"The
bearer,
Emin,
an
Armenian
Christian,
having
been
taken
proper
notice
of
by
the
carols
of
Frankistan,
the
Russian
pudeshahs
vizier
recommended
him
in
a
letter
to
prince
Heraclius.
That
caffer,
instead
of
rewarding
his
services,
has
turned
him
out
of
the
country.
He
is
returning
over
the
Oss
(or
Caucasian
mountains),
and
going
through
Circassia
to
the
village
of
Boragan.
The
Michkiz
nation,
in
the
woody
province
of
Chachan,
coming
to
him
for
the
sake
of
booty,
several
thousands
of
them
offered
their
services
to
him,
in
order
to
march
with
him
to
the
desolation
of
Georgia;
but
he
being
an
Armenian,
and
not
in
the
least
inclined
to
their
enterprize,
dismissed
them,
making
Ali
Sultan,
my
relation,
his
guide,
as
far
as
this
place;
where
we
received
him
according
to
the
law
of
hospitality
ordained
by
Abraham,
the
first
of
all
prophets.
The
truth
and
honesty
of
his
heart
made
us
love,
respect,
and
caress
him,
as
much
as
if
he
had
been
born
with
us
of
one
mother.
We
cannot
doubt
that
the
Jamahat
of
Charr,
or
Esembly,
will
receive
him
in
as
friendly
a
manner
as
we
have
done;
and
that
you
must
not
expect
him
to
go
with
you,
inroading
or
making
incursions
into
Georgia;
for
he
is
an
Armenian,
true
to
his
faith;
and
not
a
Georgian,
false
and
distrustful!
But
if
there
should
be
any
expedition
going
on
against
the
Refzys,
he
will
have
no
objection.
Given
under
my
hand
and
seal
unclosed,
at
the
city
of
Khanzakh,
in
the
kingdom
of
Avar.
"
This
letter
served
him
as
a
passport
all
the
way,
through
different
republics
in
the
mountains,
not
subject
to
any
prince
but
by
their
tenure,
the
nutzal
can
call
upon
them
when
their
service
is
wanted
against
any
power;
that
is
to
say,
Turks,
Persians,
Georgians,
and
so
forth.
After
travelling
two
days,
about
two
in
the
afternoon,
as
he
was
marching
with
his
twenty-five
men
through
a
large
meadow,
and
passing
by
a
village
on
the
left
called
Cutakh,
a
Lazgui
named
Mohamed,
observing
that
Emins
dress
was
not
like
the
rest,
and
perceiving
that
he
was
an
Armenian,
came
up,
and
gently
laying
hold
of
the
reins
of
his
horse,
carried
him
to
his
own
house,
very
happy
that
he
had
a
rich
booty;
securing
also
his
led
and
pack
horses.
About
500
villagers,
and
as
many
women,
making
a
great
throng
about
him,
sat
down,
according
to
custom,
to
divide
the
booty.
The
head
man
of
the
nutzals
people
told
them
very
coolly,
that
he
was
certainly
an
Armenian,
but
not
such
as
they
thought.
They
said,
that
Dagistan
was
a
sacred
country;
and
that
by
their
law
no
Christian
could
go
through
it,
unless
he
was
chained
as
a
slave
for
sale;
so
that
all
the
gentlemans
reasoning
with
them
had
no
effect.
He
therefore
left
Emin
among
them,
and
went
to
the
elders
of
other
villages.
He
was
gone
about
an
hour;
during
which
time
the
women,
old
and
young,
sat
round
him,
as
if
he
was
dead,
with
a
musical
voice
lamenting
his
situation,
and
bewailing
his
father
and
mother,
thinking
how
unhappy
they
would
be
to
hear
their
son
was
made
a
slave;
tears
running
down
their
cheeks,
as
if
they
had
lost
a
son
or
a
brother;
little
imagining
the
charge
of
burial,
and
the
funeral
dinner,
would
cost
Mahomed
his
whole
winters
provision;
for
he,
discerning
Emins
friend,
at
the
head
of
600
armed
men,
coming
down
from
the
brow
of
an
adjoining
hill,
directly
drove
away
both
men
and
women,
and,
with
his
gigantic
mother,
fell
down
upon
their
knees,
and
begged
Emin,
the
dead
man,
to
save
their
house,
by
saying,
that
he
was
brought
in
as
a
guest,
not
as
a
slave.
Emin
consented
to
say
so;
and
when
they
came
and
asked
him,
how
he
was
used
by
that
fellow,
Mahomed?
he
said,
"As
a
guest.
"
They
said,
"That
word
saved
his
house
from
being
pulled
down.
"
The
nutzals
letter
was
read
again
to
them;
they
all
shook
hands
with
Emin;
and
it
was
very
fortunate
the
landlord
returned
his
things
before
they
came
there,
otherwise
the
house
would
not
have
escaped
their
fury,
for
his
transgression
against
the
law
of
hospitality,
in
Dagistan
particularly,
as
he
made
bold
to
treat
in
that
rough
manner
the
most
beloved
friend
of
the
nutzal.
He
ordered
the
fellow
to
bring
victuals,
and
they,
like
so
many
wolves,
devoured
every
morsel
of
dried
beef
and
mutton,
and
obliged
him
to
give
Emins
people
seven
large
sheep,
which
served
them
three
days
on
the
way.
When
they
came
to
Catukh,
it
was
Wednesday,
and
the
nutzals
general
letter
was
read
by
Molah
Musa,
in
the
assembly
at
the
Mesgid,
on
Friday
after
prayers.
All
of
them
made
Emin
welcome,
and
were
very
glad
he
had
escaped
from
the
hands
of
that
caffer
Heraclius.
Hajy
Mustapha,
at
whose
house
he
alighted,
told
him,
that
as
it
was
his
wish,
according
to
the
purport
of
the
letter
from
the
nutzal,
to
go
to
Armenia,
he
would
conduct
him
to
Talla,
an
hours
journey
from
that
place,
where
there
were
many
Armenian
merchants
lying
in
a
caravanserai,
some
of
whom,
for
their
own
affairs,
would
soon
depart,
when
Emin
might
join
them
in
time
to
be
in
the
same
caravan
with
them.
Emin,
very
glad
of
that
intelligence,
set
out
with
Hajy
Mustapha,
and
his
servant
Mortazaly
Ali,
and
arrived
at
the
place
called
Talla,
where
the
hajy,
according
to
the
custom
of
the
Lazguis,
took
and
introduced
him
as
a
guest
to
another
in
the
village
of
Talla.
Just
as
he
entered
the
court-yard
of
the
house,
there
came
out
two
Turkish
women,
wives
to
the
landlord,
like
mad
dogs,
scolding
Mustapha
furiously
for
bringing
his
guests
always
to
their
house.
Hajy
Mustapha
ran
away;
and
the
master
of
the
house
begged
Emin
to
alight
for
half
an
hour,
till
his
son
returned.
Just
at
that
time
the
son
came,
and
took
Emin
and
his
servant
to
the
before-mentioned
caravanserai,
about
800
yards
from
the
house.
Emin
was
flattered
with
the
hopes
of
going
among
his
fellow
Christians,
not
knowing
that
their
poisonous
words
would
shoot
through
his
heart.
When
he
reached
the
gates
of
the
hellish
mansion,
every
one
of
them
came
and
stood
at
the
entry,
looking
as
pale
as
death;
and,
instead
of
speaking
to
him,
told
the
young
Lazgui,
they
had
no
room
to
spare.
"Take
him,
"
said
they,
"to
your
house
again,
he
shall
by
no
means
enter
here;
he
is
your
king;
we
have
nothing
to
say
to
him.
"
The
poor
young
man,
surprized
at
their
behaviour,
and
afflicted
at
Emins
situation,
said,
with
a
very
meek
voice,
"Never
mind,
Sir,
God
is
great;
let
us
go
to
our
house
again.
"
No
sooner
had
they
turned
their
horses
heads,
than
the
Jews
began
to
murmur
like
cowardly
dogs
standing
upon
the
terrace
of
a
house
to
bark
at
passengers.
Emin
was
very
nearly
provoked
to
turn
and
fire
at
them;
for
if
he
had
killed
ever
so
many,
nobody
would
have
restrained
him;
the
young
man
his
companion
would
very
willingly
have
joined
him;
and
the
Lazguis
would
have
been
very
glad
of
it,
since
among
them,
to
kill
an
Armenian
is
no
more
regarded,
than
to
cut
a
cucumber
with
a
knife.
Yet
he
bore
with
great
patience
all
their
satirical
insolent
expressions.
Had
not
his
English
education
helped
to
prevent
him,
he
might
have
behaved
according
to
their
deserts:
he
only
comforted
himself
with
thinking,
that
they
were
all
Georgians,
not
genuine
Armenians.
The
Lazgui
boy,
very
much
resembling
an
English
gentleman,
asked
him
on
the
way
to
the
house,
how
he
could
be
so
fond
of
so
worthless
a
people?
And
added,
"Is
that
all
the
reward
of
your
pains,
and
dangerous
travels
through
the
world,
particularly
in
Dagistan,
where
the
birds
cannot
fly
in
the
air
without
being
sensible
of
terror;
yet
there
the
Lazguis
with
a
good
heart
received
you,
elected
you
to
rule
over
them
as
a
sovereign,
and
are
always
ready
to
follow
you.
This
exasperating
affront
is
inexcusable;
pardon
me,
Sir;
you
will
do
nothing
at
last
with
that
conscience
and
humanity
of
yours:
remember
me,
I
am
but
nineteen
years
of
age,
but
I
predict,
that
one
day
you
will
find
all
your
trouble
to
have
been
vain.
"
On
entering
the
courtyard,
the
exhortation
of
the
young
gentleman
ended.
Emin
slept
there
that
night,
and
the
next
morning
went
back
to
Catukh,
to
Hajy
Mustaphas
house,
but
found
that
he
was
absent.
There
were
two
Armenians
of
the
same
cast
lodging
in
one
of
the
rooms
annexed
to
the
house,
under
the
hajys
protection,
carrying
on
a
sort
of
trade
as
shopkeepers,
with
a
capital
of
about
two
thousand
rupees,
but
as
insolent
as
the
richest
of
them.
These
men
set
the
landlady
on
to
turn
Emin
out
of
the
house:
the
messenger
between
the
two
parties
was
Emins
servant
Mortazaly.
At
last
the
servant
was
told
by
the
hajys
wife,
that
his
own
countrymen,
the
Armenians,
were
the
reason
of
her
pressing
his
master
to
go
out
of
the
house;
that
since
those
two
shopkeepers
were
of
some
profit
to
the
hajy,
she
was
obliged
through
them
to
give
Emin
warning;
and
she
concluded
with
saying,
"Tell
him
to
do
as
he
pleases.
"
No
sooner
had
he
heard
that
last
message,
than
he
placed
his
baggage
under
a
large
walnut-tree,
to
which
was
twisted
a
vine,
with
great
bunches
of
grapes
hanging
down
over
his
head
by
the
side
of
a
cool
brook;
and
he
let
loose
his
horses
to
graze
in
the
very
court-yard,
which
was
like
a
fine
garden,
threatening
the
paultry
shopkeepers
to
punish
them
for
their
baseness.
They,
through
fear,
killed
two
large
fowls,
made
a
pilau,
and
invited
him
to
supper.
The
next
day
the
hajy
came
back;
and
having
learned
what
had
passed
the
day
before,
was
extremely
angry.
Had
not
Emin
interfered,
and
with
great
difficulty
quieted
him,
he
was
really
going
to
cut
off,
first
his
termagant
wifes
head,
and
then
those
of
the
thoughtless
Armenian
shopkeepers.
The
hajy
took
Emin
to
his
country-seat,
three
miles
off,
where
his
second
wife
was
in
the
farm,
with
cattle
and
horses.
He
lodged
him
in
a
little
tower,
just
big
enough
for
five
or
six
men,
and
put
his
horses
in
a
stable,
in
the
midst
of
the
very
people
against
whom
he
had
fought
near
Tifflis,
wounding
thirteen
of
them,
every
one
of
whom
was
dead.
They
all
came
to
see
him,
and
instead
of
revenging
themselves,
like
other
Mahomedans,
they
respected
and
loved
him,
expressing
wonder
how
his
few
lads
could
stand
so
many
hours
against
so
many
veterans.
They,
at
Emins
expence,
took
great
care
to
bake,
boil,
sew,
and
wash
for
him,
with
as
much
cheerfulness
as
he
could
wish;
nor
had
he
the
least
apprehension
in
regard
of
what
had
passed
before.
The
servant
that
came
with
him
in
hopes
of
procuring
a
slave,
finding
his
inclination
was
not
in
the
least
bent
to
go
marauding
to
Georgia,
with
several
bands
who
offered
at
different
times
to
put
themselves
under
his
command,
asked
leave
to
go
away
to
his
own
country,
which
was
granted.
As
there
was
no
agreement
for
wages,
Emin
made
him
a
present
of
his
bay
horse
for
three
months
service:
he
then
went
away
with
as
much
content
as
if
he
had
procured
a
Georgian
slave.
Emin
thought
proper
to
stay
under
Hajy
Mustaphas
protection
at
Catukh,
to
hear
some
news
from
Armenia
and
Georgia;
and
in
the
mean
time
to
derive
some
advantage
from
gaining
the
affection
of
the
people
of
that
place,
which
was
ten
hours
journey
to
Kissikh,
the
frontier
of
Cakhet,
and
four
days
to
Carabagh,
the
north
of
Armenia.
