tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">{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  These have been replaced by opening quotes in this eBook - DP.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.

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