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to Miaskoufka. Here
Here the difficulty of getting horses recommenced:
nor could it be overcome till the mid morning (Fri 12 Jan,)
about 3 or 4 o'clock when I set out with 6 horses
for Chechelnik. The 5 or if you please the 40
miles between Miaskoufka and that <gap/. town
took me till near the same hour in the afternoon.
Here as at Yassi, Religion intervened and put a
spell upon me. From one side of the Polish Ukraine
to the other not a Christian horse ever
stirs without a Jew-Broker to him give him motion.
Before such an arrival could be ferreted out, tho'
no time was lost in hunting him, the Sabbath
had begun: and it was not till the afternoon of the
next day (Sat: 13th) that Ludwig after tugging all
night long, tore a leaf out of the book of Mortimer,
and held up to the view of the astonished
inhabitants of Chechelnik the doctrine of "Every
"man his own Horse-broker." I arrived at Sauran,
a stage of equal length, travelling as usual in the
night, by 2 o'clock the next morning (Sun. 15 Jan.)
There by good fortune, though not without Jew assistance,
I in the compass of 2 hours I got horses
for this place. — From Chekanofka even until
Bohopol, not a space of not less than 144 miles
not an Inn have I enterd that has been
in any other hands than those of the race of
Israel: a people by inbred filthiness the worst
qualified, and by religious scruples, one should
think the least disposed, to engage in such a
business. — Would that our good friend, his late Lordship,
were sitting beside me (he knows what I mean)
I would relate to him at full length and in
sort, my entertainment among these levves. He and
I, on reading of the scrapes they used to get into in Hollingshead
have often joined in lamenting their hare
: enlighten'd by experience familiar
with vicarious punishment, I am now satisfied
that the sufferings of the forefathers were
no more than a just retribution for those which
the children have inflicted on me. — <foreign>Que fit allocenas,</foreign> that in all Poland, ( for it is the same in
other provinces as in this) a man can not get
a rag to cover him, nor a piece of black bread
to eat, nor a beast to carry him nor a hog-stie to lay his head in, but
he must have a Jew to help him to it? — Oh
but and (cried an old Polish Latin-talking Gentleman-traveller
to whom I gave a supper at
Miaskoufka) they have a head! — Yes, replied
I, "but it is a lousy one.". — If such is the superiority
of Jewish heads, what are nature Polish
ones. I have a theory less disgraceful to the body of
the nation. These interlopers form the < etat standing
in the gap between a people of holders Lords and a people
of
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Correspondence |
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Samuel Bentham |
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