text:  "And you stand like buffaloes stupidly looking on while they force your brother to work like a brute under the yoke!" exclaimed the Khan gloomily to the bystanders; "while they laugh in your face at your customs and trample your faith under their feet! and ye whine like old women instead of revenging yourselves like men! Cowards! cowards!" "What can we do?" cried a multitude of voices together; "the Russians have cannon--they have bayonets!" "And ye have ye not guns? have ye not daggers? It is not the Russians that are brave but ye that are cowards! Shame of Mussulmans! The sword of Daghestan trembles before the Russian whip