With Fire and Sword
- ISBN-10
- 1458950425
- ISBN-13
- 9781458950420
- Series
- With Fire and Sword
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 556
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10
- Publisher
- Rarebooksclub.com
- Author
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A few days later, the Lieutenant and his retinue were marching with quick pace towards Lubni. When they had forded the Dnieper, they marched along the broad highway across the steppes which connects Chigrin with Lubni, winding through Juki, Semimogil and Khorol. Similar roads led from the capital of the Prince's territory to Kiev. In earlier times, before the battle which Hetman Jolkyevski fought against Solonitza, there were no roads at all; one had to travel from Lubni to Kiev across the steppes and over the desert; the way to Chigrin was by water, and on returning one passed through Khorol. Taking it all together, the country beyond the Dnieper, the former land of the Polovyets, was a desert, scarcely more populous than the Wild Lands, often infested by Tartars, and without protection from the bands of Zaporo- jians. On the banks of the Sula, rose immense forests, teeming with life, seldom traversed by the foot of man. At certain places on the slopes of the Sula, and Ruda, Sleporod, Koro- vaya, Orjavtsa, Pshol, and other greater and smaller rivers and streams, marshes had formed. These were partly overgrown with thick brush, and forests, and partly open land resembling a meadow. In these woods and morasses, animals, of all descriptions found a convenient hiding-place. In the darkest depths of the forests roamed an immense number of aurochs,1 bears, and wild-boars, and also an incalculable number of wolves, lynxes, martens, herds of deer, and red antelopes. In the swamps and pools, beavers built their dams; and the saying was current among Zaporojians, that among these beavers, there were some a century old, and snow-white with age. On the high dry steppes, roamed herds of wild horses with shasrgy heads and blood-shot eyes. The rivers teemed with fish, and ...
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