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APPENDIX 585 under water (noticed by Gibbon), in which they dived to escape the nomad enemies who hunted them down. See Peisker, Neue Grundlagen der slawischen Altertums- kunde, Ein Vorbericht, 1910. On the relations of the Slavs to the Tartars and the social conditions of the Slavs in antiquity and the middle ages, seethe same writer's important work, Die alteren Beziehungen der Slawen zu Turkotataren und Ger- manen und ihre sozialgeschichtliche Bedeutung, 1905. ABERDEEN ; THE UNIVERSITY PRESS vol. iv.— 37*
