Crossword-Solution: TELEGAS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

After breakfast, a carriage and several little country carts--telegas they are called--came to the door to take us to our destination.

The mail is carried from the border in a train of three or four telegas, which rattle along over the primitive roads in a cloud of dust, with armed Cossacks galloping before and after, and a Russian flag carried by the herald in front.

But the rows of poplars, the whitewash, and the telegas were still left to remind us of the temporary Russian occupation.

That she possessed considerable means of transport, and had arabas, telegas, and horses sufficient, in ordinary times and on good roads, for the service of her army, was evident enough; but I was assured, on authority beyond question, that for two whole days in the winter the troops at Mackenzie were left without food, in consequence of the state of the roads.

Yet thousands of wagons, arabas, telegas, and other vehicles; hundreds of teams of horses, yokes of bullocks, strings of baggage-mules, are at my sole disposal--their proprietors having received liberal payment on account, and having before them the hope of treatment still more generous.