Game abounds in many parts of the peninsula. The hare and red-legged partridge, with wild duck and snipe, i'in OF Tin: and welcome guests within our liiu-s. In winter, the greater ami lesser bustard, and the wild goose, passed in vast flocks over the camp, and were sometimes initiated in the mysteries of the pot-au-feu by fortunate captors. The present natives of the country are of a mixed iption. Those of the plains are undoubted Tartars, with the high cheek-bones, tar-severed pig-like eyes, and flat features of the Mongolian; but the inhabitants of the mountain villages appear of a much more mixed. and, not uncommonly, the refined features of the Greek physiognomy are met with.
They appear a quiet inoffensive race, honest in expression of lace, and powerful in body. They are very cleanly in their persons and habits, and their villages are generally models of ness. Their houses collected into little knots in the villages, or pen-lied in the sheltered nooks of the mounngh unpretending, have an air of comfort not seen in the East, and the peaceful inmates, who crowd out to stare at ihe f".vigner, seems to belie their ancient character for warlike prowess and feroc I con!;,,f the diseases of the inhabi<>m not knowing their Sea fleemed not uncommon, and m;:i with small-pox. I Inspector tells us, on the authority of the officers, that remittent levers appear to 'I'leinic of the Crimea, and that disease from inhabitants chiefly sutler. ()phthalmia is said to be common in Sebasto bly -tone dust of the uupaved streets, and tinstrong sunlight.
Though having my attention fully alive to it, I failed to see any cases of tubercular elephantiasis, the " Morbus Crimensis" of Pallas and Martins, and I never heard any one say he had seen a case in any of the villages. Probably, if such cases did exist, they would be invisible to the traveller, as the inhabitants are too well off to show their sick as objects of charity.