24. Die multiethnische und multireligiöse Krim unter zarischer Herrschaft: Die tatarische Bevölkerung – Geschlechterverhältnisse

I now proceed to give some account separately of other colonists [...]. The Nogay Tatars, if not the original inhabitants of the country, at least wandered over the immense steppes of New Russia,with their tents, flocks, and herds, at the time of the Russian Conquest, and the ages before [...]. The government has at length conquered the inveterate prejudices of this wandering horde, and induced them to lay aside their roving habits, settling them in villages, and inciting them to cultivate the ground. They are, however, of all the colonists, far the worst cultivators.1