Note 4 — Chapter XXXV · FROM STRETINSK TO UST-KARA.
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Their favourite place for spending the night is on the top of the stove, which is sometimes raised at one end by brickwork to form a rest for the head. Before mounting this, they may perhaps take off their boots and an upper garment; but an Anglo-Russian lady has told me that, when living at Kertch, though she made it a condition, before a woman entered her service, that she should undress before going to bed, yet servants frequently transgressed; and that, as far as the men were concerned, they never took off their clothes but for the bath or to change them.