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Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Passwan Oglow,
by inflexible firmness in all his resolves ; his firmness , however , is highly tempered with justice and humanity . He eminently distinguished himself in the different posts which he held at Constantinople and at Widdin , by an extreme simplicity of living , and by as strong an aversion for sumptuous luxury and vain ostentation . In a word , he is described as a philosopher endowed with all the great qualities which are required of those who are called to eminent situations .
Passwan Oglow is not yet forty years of age . During his campaign , which lasted nine or ten months , he experienced the extremes both of good and ill fortune , and he comported himself in both with wisdom and dignity . There is every reason to believe that his revolt was not directed at first against the Grand Signior , but against some neighbouring Pachas ; that in order to swell the number of his
adherents , he pretended to assert and defend the rights of the Janissaries and the ancient Ottoman institutions , and ended by proclaiminghimself the proteftor of the liberties of the Greeks . There can be no doubt that if Passwan Oglow had been able to maintain himself for any length of time in Macedonia , he would have brought about a revolution in that province , as well as in Albania and the Morea . So highly had his first successes raised the celebrity of his name , and increased the number of his partisans .
Kamtschatka Dance.
KAMTSCHATKA DANCE .
TN his late voyage of Discovery , M . De la Perouse- having - touched at the ' harbour of St . Peter and St . Paul , in Kamtschatka , the officers of his squadron were received with great hospitality b y Mr . KaslofF , the Governor of Okhotsk , who gave an assembly , on their account , to the principal inhabitants of the town . ' If the assembly' says M . De la Perouse ' was not numerousit
, , , was at least extraordinary . Thirteen women , dressed in silken stuffs , ten of the number being Kamtschadales , with broad faces , litlle eyes , and flat noses , were sitting on benches round the room . The Kamtschadales as well as the Russians had silk handkerchiefs tied round their heads , almost in the manner they are worn by the mulatto women in our West India islands . The ball began ' with Russian
dances , of which the tunes were very pleasing , and very much like the country dance called the Cossack , that was in fashion at Paris a few years ago . The Kamtschadale dances that followed can onl y be . compared to those ofthe convulsionnaires , at the famous tomb of St . Medard , the dancers having occasion for nothing but arms and shoulders , and scarcely for any legs at all . The Kamtschadale
females , by their convulsions and contracted motions , inspire the spectator with a painful sensation , which is still more strongly excited h y the mournful cry that is drawn from the pit of their stomachs , and 'hat serves as the only music to direct their movements . Their fati gue is such during this exercise , that they are covered with perspiration , and lie stretched out upon the floor , without the power of rising . The abundant exhalations that emanate from their bodies , VOL . XI . * K k
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Passwan Oglow,
by inflexible firmness in all his resolves ; his firmness , however , is highly tempered with justice and humanity . He eminently distinguished himself in the different posts which he held at Constantinople and at Widdin , by an extreme simplicity of living , and by as strong an aversion for sumptuous luxury and vain ostentation . In a word , he is described as a philosopher endowed with all the great qualities which are required of those who are called to eminent situations .
Passwan Oglow is not yet forty years of age . During his campaign , which lasted nine or ten months , he experienced the extremes both of good and ill fortune , and he comported himself in both with wisdom and dignity . There is every reason to believe that his revolt was not directed at first against the Grand Signior , but against some neighbouring Pachas ; that in order to swell the number of his
adherents , he pretended to assert and defend the rights of the Janissaries and the ancient Ottoman institutions , and ended by proclaiminghimself the proteftor of the liberties of the Greeks . There can be no doubt that if Passwan Oglow had been able to maintain himself for any length of time in Macedonia , he would have brought about a revolution in that province , as well as in Albania and the Morea . So highly had his first successes raised the celebrity of his name , and increased the number of his partisans .
Kamtschatka Dance.
KAMTSCHATKA DANCE .
TN his late voyage of Discovery , M . De la Perouse- having - touched at the ' harbour of St . Peter and St . Paul , in Kamtschatka , the officers of his squadron were received with great hospitality b y Mr . KaslofF , the Governor of Okhotsk , who gave an assembly , on their account , to the principal inhabitants of the town . ' If the assembly' says M . De la Perouse ' was not numerousit
, , , was at least extraordinary . Thirteen women , dressed in silken stuffs , ten of the number being Kamtschadales , with broad faces , litlle eyes , and flat noses , were sitting on benches round the room . The Kamtschadales as well as the Russians had silk handkerchiefs tied round their heads , almost in the manner they are worn by the mulatto women in our West India islands . The ball began ' with Russian
dances , of which the tunes were very pleasing , and very much like the country dance called the Cossack , that was in fashion at Paris a few years ago . The Kamtschadale dances that followed can onl y be . compared to those ofthe convulsionnaires , at the famous tomb of St . Medard , the dancers having occasion for nothing but arms and shoulders , and scarcely for any legs at all . The Kamtschadale
females , by their convulsions and contracted motions , inspire the spectator with a painful sensation , which is still more strongly excited h y the mournful cry that is drawn from the pit of their stomachs , and 'hat serves as the only music to direct their movements . Their fati gue is such during this exercise , that they are covered with perspiration , and lie stretched out upon the floor , without the power of rising . The abundant exhalations that emanate from their bodies , VOL . XI . * K k