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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
