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But this war did not begin until after the proclamation of the

Confederacy of Targowica, which was on May 14,1792.]

177 [A former adjutant of Kosciuszko; he perished in the war of

1812.]

178 A certain Russian historian describes in similar fashion the

omens and the premonitions of the Muscovite people before the war

of 1812.

179 Run [the Polish word here used] is the winter corn when it

comes up green.

180 Wyraj [the Polish word here used] in the popular dialect

means properly the autumn season, when the migratory birds fly

away; to fly to wyraj means to fly to warm countries. Hence

figuratively the folk applies the word wyraj to warm countries

and especially to some fabulous, happy countries, lying beyond

the seas.

181 [Prince Joseph Poniatowski (compare pp. 334-335) and Jerome

Bonaparte (1784-1860),the youngest brother of Napoleon.]

182 [See pp. 31 and 334, and note 33.]

183 [See pp. 31 and 334, and note 34.]