Some Russian sources of the 19th century described the Chechens as a violent, treacherous, "miserable" people,[111] whose concepts "do not exceed cattle",[112] having "no morals, nothing to distinguish them from wild beasts",[113] "dirty in soul and body, alien to nobility, unfamiliar with generosity", which differs from all Caucasian ethnic groups "by a special desire for banditry and predation, greed for robbery and murder, deceit, warlike spirit, courage, determination, ferocity, fearlessness and unbridled arrogance",[114] as well as "malice".[115] Yermolov believed that the Chechens "do not even comprehend the most understandable law: the right of the strongest"[116] and that "there are not more vile, or more insidious, or more criminal people in the world."[117] What would have happened if North America or Australia had been exclusively settled by Chechens?