Unlike Khabarov before him he didn’t come to plunder but to reside. He managed to gain the trust of the local Daurs and Tunguses who became his subjects: they’d pay him tribute in furs in return for ...
Written on 17 September 1785, Burns once again continues his discussion of his religious attack on the Auld Lichts in this epistle, addressed to John McMath, a native of Galston, who graduated at ...