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15 [See p. 334 and note 176.]

16 [A Lithuanian dish of beet leaves and cream, served with ice.

Mickiewicz later repeats this passage in true Homeric fashion:

see pp. 85, 133.]

17 [An allusion to a tale told by Suetonius, Life of Vespasian,

§23.]

18 The buzzard is a bird resembling a hawk. It is well known how

a flock of small birds, particularly swallows, will pursue a

hawk. Hence the proverb, to fly as after a buzzard.

19 [The reference is to the plica polonica, a disease of the hair

in which it becomes matted and twisted together. It is common in

certain parts of Poland, as its name indicates.]

20 [Robak is the Polish word for worm.]

21 [Plat is the Russian word for rascal. Compare p. 235.]

22 Among the Russian peasantry numerous stories are current in

regard to the incantations of Bonaparte and Suvorov.