text:  Hundreds of brave mountaineers--your noukers and my own--have fallen in fight with the Russians; and the Tchetchenetz has seen turned to flight the face of Sultan Akhmet Khan which they are wont to behold the star of victory! To accept the beggar's repast perhaps to hear reproaches for the death of fathers and sons carried away by me in this rash expedition--'twould be to lose their confidence for ever