Excerpt from A Year Among the Circassians, Vol. 1 of 2 The reader will learn, in the course of this narrative, the reasons which induced the writer to take a voyage to Circassia. Warmly sympathizing with the patriotic mountaineers in their struggle against their oppressors, he was himself, during his twelvemonth's residence among them, too actively engaged and too deeply absorbed in it to find leisure for literary composition. 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.