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Excerpt from Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus AN author's evident aim in the composition of a preface is to induce the reader, through its agency, to peruse the work which he puts before him; and in no other instance, perhaps, is such inducement. So necessary as when the author comes forward with an untried subject, -a subject upon which the public has little experience, and a subject, therefore, upon which it is difficult to form any conclusion. Such, however, is the position in which we find ourselves at the present time. Ere we enter upon the scenes and adventures which form the subject of this book, it will be necessary to preface them with some account of the literature of the country and of the people, where and among whom all the circumstances which we are going to detail actually took place - and of which, courteous reader, I might say you know no more than you do about China. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.