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а frst step in а subsequent active and adventu-

rous career had the pleasure от at least the

advantage of getting immediately acquainted with

musket - shots, whilst passing the mountains of the

Caucasus and оп ту arrival at TiHis with the dan-

gers (and at the same time useful experience) of the

plague, for that calamity was then raging in Geor-

gia and in some parts 0f the mountains, and ha-

ve had subsequently а great deal to do with the ple-

дие, and have always felt the advantage of having

so early become acquainted wiht the horrors of that

terrible malady and with the means to be employed,

if not for its сите, at least against its progress.

I was received by the brave prince Zizianof with

all possible kindness, and very soon after in Novem-

ber of the some year began ту frst campaign,

by accompanying prince Zizianof himself in ап expedi-

tion against the Persian fortress Gandja, now Elizabet-

pol. We arrived in view of the fortress оп the 2d of

December, and had the same day а most smart епда-

gement with the Persians, which ended in our асси-

pation 0f the whole 0f the suburbs of Gandja.

In his report of this engagement prince Zizianof

was so good as to mention ту пате in а Hattering

manner, and received the order of St Апп of the third

class. А fortunate circumstance for те that day was

the assisting out 0f the melee. А brave oflcer who

had just been severely wounded at the foot 0f а Рет-

sian battery, and who would have been taken by the

епету, if а brave chassenr of his сотрапу had not

taken him under опе arm and I under the other; the

chasseur was immediately killed, and succeeded in