COSSACKS' AMAZING HORSEMANSHIP.
.Cosjiacks claim to be pure Russian I stock, and point proudly to the feet that they fought for Russia as far back" as the tenth century. There^are really two main types of Cossacks-—one known as the Little Russians, and the other as the Don Cossacks, the latter being the better and more enlightened type. Both the Little Russians and the Don Cossacks, however, who together number about 1,600,000 men, are ! born soldiers and splendid fighters.
They are capable of. doing anything in the saddle, and amuse themselves by such feats as leaping from the saddles while the horses* are going at full gallop, and then remounting, springing from one horse to another, riding double, snatching a man from the ground supposed to be wounded, and picking up coins as they hang head downwards from the saddle while the horse is travelling at full speed. •
The Cossacks, by reason of their military prowess, have for centuries past lived on land granted them by the Russian Government as part payment for the military service required of them.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 30 June 1915, Page 7
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