Footnotes:
[{7}] In the book the opening double-quotes are double commas. These have been replaced by opening quotes in this eBook - DP.
[{11}] The Tartar Horde,—generally known by the appellation of “The Golden,” which, some centuries since, was the dreaded and terrible scourge of Southern Russia.
[{13a}] Turkish pipe.
[{13b}] Keeper of the women.