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Qonength Yee Caveeorbor Efbrartan Witarpara foykasin. puitic Libragy Gov. of Wusi Benet Spuaric LIBRARY SCHAMYL AND CIRCASS CUIAPTER'I, » TAR PROMMKIS oF THE carcasrs Schamy? at Himri~The triple esogue—Manxoor Hey? the first Prophet of Gia Caucasus—Kasx Mullah, the teacher w SeHamyl Hs Berore Meath é Ox the cighteouth of October, ,1822, the Rus sina audprtook the vielotious siego of the Can- casi mountain-forgress of Thmri,einto which their enemies, under the generulship of the chief Kasi Mul- Tah and the Murut* Sehamyl,: lad thrown thensclves and forces, Wor some days tit-cbattle had mged with uf courage on beth vider; but, notwithstanding the afiperior mmuht of the Russians, rendered shore dieodful hy reasoli af theie fearful artillery-teaing, all proposals of sarrendvr were sudignsintly gejoered bytho valiant besieged. , Fanatveally chauting verses frotn the Koran, thoy sent forth death on Jogdep wingd into tho funky of them adversaries, Although the threefold, Tamport of this forgo entiie'y aurrounded, thé towers, _Blready reduced to ruig by the cannon of the non, ail” * Murs are members of a boly sect, who hare devoted theme s€ivea to death fur the faith. z DAML BLY. Kasi Mullalyand Sehamyt would hear nothyag of surren Ger, Thoreddemmgdawnof thaterghtcenth day of Getober broke, and with U beysin the stonmng of the forties, sdiigh, after he Mloodiest fight, termuna®h wa favoar of the Russians Kast Mutlih and many Mhuds tell at Helamyls side, Le Winvelf recerveil a hulled on lus sl, us well ay a wound tom a bayonet. yet he broke Aisappenied, and elucd wilh the fy fork Ins way sgudst the slaugh within two yores, the Cite af Tits puogtes Jt Tgs ofted been asserted im the most yarioua quatters, jhat Schauyl’ was iaken at Lit Ly the Russiang, conducted to Mt. Petersbirght plaoud in the aray ual subsequently sent against bas’ ovtn countyymen 7 Lut? Tong onee*indulied by lus supe- nor, he took the first opporiamty of retuofing to the ranks uf Russia's foce © Ly 1» even® related that yhen aflorwards a wounded ,tusasn ofl Dronght. to ss low, Nehaimyl reveyoingd sam che of law best fuendy uucing his stay in St. PeterSburgh, and alter ret aning bins a short while ‘his company, set lum at hberly. Thgse zumours have often, of gorfee, been sleturbed with tho utmost variety and eFqunstantiality, whnel, Teut additional ehum fo thereredilality: sho sory which wo have just ‘iolated is mdeod _ true, but with the asiferenge that the here of it was mot anny, but hus friend [nie Bey, now his compamoft iuarms. « . < ‘Daniel Bey had boon clevated'to the muk of Russiatt genoral, but ho descited, and peut from Tidisyo " SCHAMYL'S ESCAPES a Sklissia, his native chuntry, where he was soltan, and. whore he raed the Kandunl of revolt, The Kusean Colonel Bugryte marched against Stusia with wo cowsderable force, amd took the plaice by storm, Vaniel escaped, and jomed hinwelf with Schanyl, who ranked lun amon; his stull affieces. But to return to Schamyl, Ut may eualy by umagmed that the mysterious escape “f Scbamyl ailorded ample maton te the mountyincers for many wonderful stories, For instance, Pad way a legend current, that Selumyl hud wally Loén slaughtered iy the storming of Iinnu, but that Allah lid breathed uew Life jute lus nostrils, m order to give a ain to the penple, by Has restoration of the Mund, that he was destined ty becume the leader of” lus compsumuous in the fur = . Tn the year I8i4, Schutayl wae aguin preserved eam oxtraodimmy manner. The woe of this veemence way,"Tstumak, the resideuge uf the Adds of the Avars. Kas Lullab had rejected the alluuee of the Mande Vashuuike (in the Russian interest) m 1830, Asn wards, Humaad Bey, ‘he suecesior of dus propiuet, took porsession of Psluasuk , bub not till’ be bad sent forthe Ahanwn’s two suys, who bad come to deal tratnwualy voll fins, and, recerang them an Tus tent, had then unuilered, subsequently exegiting their mother, The lnad of Daghestan wa.not wantingan avengers, uid h& uew ebief of the Murids fell by the hand of two of his nublest and buavest companions. ‘Phe two Invther, Usman and Madj: Murad, hg” Be