He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face; and said softly, as he drooped his head, "My son, my Ostap!" The Zaporozhtzi assembled for a raid by sea.

Two hundred boats were launched on the Dnieper, and Asia Minor saw those who manned them, with their shaven heads and long scalp-locks, devote her thriving shores to fire and sword; she saw the turbans of her Mahometan inhabitants strewn, like her innumerable flowers, over the blood-sprinkled fields, and floating along her river banks; she saw many tarry Zaporozhian trousers, and strong hands with black hunting-whips.

The Zaporozhtzi ate up and laid waste all the vineyards.

In the mosques they left heaps of dung.
They used rich Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them.

Long afterwards, short Zaporozhian pipes were found in those regions.