In the Finnish war he also managed to distinguish himself.
Their native language, of Finnish origin, is rapidly disappearing, their present language being a Lettish patois.
He was accompanied throughout his journey by his mistress, the Finnish girl Afrosina.
The deep indentations of the gulfs of Bothnia and Finland are surrounded by what is ethnologically Finnish territory, and it is only at the very head of the latter gulf that the Russians have taken firm foothold by erecting their capital at the mouth of the Neva.
The Gulf of Riga and the Baltic belong also to territory which is not inhabited by Sla y s, but by Finnish races and by Germans.
