Excerpt from With the Cossacks
The letters which form the basis Of the following chapters are reprinted from the New York Herald, by whose kind permission they are here reproduced; and the writer of them takes this Opportunity of thanking Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of that paper, for placing him, in the first instance, in a position to write these articles at all.
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