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102 In Lithuania the name okolica or zascianek is given to a

settlement of gentry, to distinguish them from true villages,

which are settlements of peasants. ["These zascianki were

inhabited by the poorest of the lesser nobility, who were in fact

peasants, but possessed of truly Castilian pride. The wearing of

a sword being restricted to nobles, it was not unusual to see

such zasciankowicze, or peasant nobles, following the plough

bare-footed, wearing an old rusty sword hanging at their side by

hempen cords."-Naganowski. In this volume hamlet has been

arbitrarily chosen as a translation for the name of these

villages of gentry.]

103 [See page 334.]

104 Kisiel is a Lithuanian dish, a sort of jelly made of oaten

yeast, which is washed with water until all the mealy parts are

separated from it: hence the proverb. [The literal translation of

the Polish line is simply: "To the Horeszkos he is merely the

tenth water on the kisiel."]

105 [See pp. 334, 335.]

106 [See p. 332.]

107 [See p. 335.]