To the Editor of the "Nowrm-Cuua Datty News"
Sim—In the article under the above heading which appeared in. your issue of the 6th instant, the word "Cossack" is stated to. meat "a conqueror" which, I fear 13 incorrect, The word "Cossack' not: Russian but is of Tartar origin and means "the free." It corresponds to the Russian word volpi" which has the same meaning.
When employing the phrase "Tar. tar origin," it must be understood that the Russian Slavs lays called all oriental peoples Tartar without—discrimination and all western ones 'n The Cossacks themsel the purest of them are not Slavs, properly speaking, but ture of Slavonic and ori with the latter predominating. Their native language, "Hochlatski" Little Russian, is also a mixture of the Polish and Russian language with admixtures of other dialects which resulted from the fusion of these peoples at the time of the formation of the Cossack Zaporojski Saiteh, The Romance of the Cossacks la now a thing of the past, its death blow having been dealt by the Great War, Tam, ete, SUTHERLAND,
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