Note 128 — An Account of a journey from Adrianople, thro Bulgaria, Walachia, Transylvania, Hungary, Germany, Flanders, Holland, and thence to England, in the years MDCCII and MDCCIII.
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So great is the aversion of these Valachs to the killing of calves, that to redeem one taken by General Robutin, they offered him the choice of all their children.