No, I am not prejudiced.

Strangers also find no terms of praise too high for those happy and industrious people.

Noted English and German travellers have visited my native valley and afterward written books about it, as other travellers have about Japan or Circassia.

Indeed, those two countries have something in common with my own.

My people have developed and perfected industries peculiar to themselves, as have the Japanese, and they also are proud of their handsome women, as are the Circassians--except that the girls of Toroczko are not for sale, nor, for that matter, are they to be had by foreigners, even for love.