Category: Adventure
A frozen sea--Swarms of wild-fowl--The Indo-European telegraph--Sledging on the Azov--A desolate scene--Taman--Journey inland--Tumerūk--Hotels--A dangerous sleep--Foxes--Wolves--A hasty retreat--Ekaterinodar--Supper in the forest of Crasnoi Lais--An exciting night’s sport--Dri...
A frozen sea--Swarms of wild-fowl--The Indo-European telegraph--Sledging on the Azov--A desolate scene--Taman--Journey inland--Tumerūk--Hotels--A dangerous sleep--Foxes--Wolves-...
3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.Journey to Taman--Downpour on the steppe--Tscherkess bourkas--Long-tailed horses--Absence of cultivation--The Moujiks--Causes of political discontent in Russia--Veneration for t...
5. CHAPTER V.Duapsè--Tscherkess emigrants--By the sea-shore--Superb scenery--Drunken guides--A Cossack station--Bears--Take possession of a ruined villa--Hiding our provisions--Wild swine--A...
6. CHAPTER VI.Lunch in the forest--Picturesque riding--A spill--Telegraph shanty at Golovinsky--Robinson Crusoe--Native guns--Tracks of game--Multitudes of pheasants---Paucity of native hunte...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.Refitting--Our mongrels--Shipping our spoils--Visitors--Stepan’s yarns--The hedgehog--Legend of the bracken--The Euxine in a fury--Trebogging--Traces of Tscherkess villages--Eno...
9. CHAPTER IX.Return to Heiman’s Datch--Bears--Stepan’s shooting apparatus--Journey to Duapsè--A delightful dinner--Interview with the Governor--Insects--German farm--A dangerous adventure--A...
10. CHAPTER X.The Russo-Turkish War--Sukhoum--Alleged abundance of game--Poti--My fellow-travellers--Sport in Kutais--Arrival in Tiflis--Hotels and other features of the town--The British Con...
11. CHAPTER XI.Start from Tiflis--My yemstchik--Travelling carts--Caucasian road-makers--Camel caravans--On the bleak steppe--Persian hawking--Subterranean dwellings--Shooting at Kariur--Eliza...
12. CHAPTER XII.Gerdaoul--Shooting partridges--Native wine-vaults--Expedition among the hills--Native houses--An inhospitable village--A dangerous ride--A welcome reception--Shepherd-boys--The...
13. CHAPTER XIII.Rough travelling--Shooting by the way--Shemakha and Aksu--Tarantasses and post-roads--A wretched station--Mud volcanoes and naphtha springs--Bustards--On the road to Salian--Swa...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Lenkoran--Abundance of game--Eryvool forest--Native fowlers--A hunting lodge--Swarming coverts--Wild boar--A paradise for sportsmen--Pigs at bay--‘Old Shirka’ and his quarry--A...
15. CHAPTER XV.Poti--Chasing wild boar--Red-deer--Turks and Cossacks--Sotcha--Lynxes--Game in the Caucasus--A hunting party--A wounded sow--Beautiful scene--An unexpected bag--Our _cuisine_--T...
16. CHAPTER I.Scarcely a week’s journey from London, with delicious climates and any quantity of game, it always seemed a marvel to me how few English sportsmen ever found their way to the Cr...
17. CHAPTER II.A frozen sea--Swarms of wild-fowl--The Indo-European telegraph--Sledging on the Azov--A desolate scene--Taman--Journey inland--Tumerūk--Hotels--A dangerous sleep--Foxes--Wolves-...
18. CHAPTER III.It was not until the August of 1878, three years after the events recorded in my last chapter, that a passage in a recently published book on the Caucasus drew my attention agai...
19. CHAPTER IV.Journey to Taman--Downpour on the steppe--Tscherkess bourkas--Long-tailed horses--Absence of cultivation--The Moujiks--Causes of political discontent in Russia--Veneration for t...
20. CHAPTER V.Duapsè--Tscherkess emigrants--By the sea-shore--Superb scenery--Drunken guides--A Cossack station--Bears--Take possession of a ruined villa--Hiding our provisions--Wild swine--A...
21. CHAPTER VI.Lunch in the forest--Picturesque riding--A spill--Telegraph shanty at Golovinsky--Robinson Crusoe--Native guns--Tracks of game--Multitudes of pheasants--Paucity of native hunter...
22. CHAPTER VII.To recount day by day our adventures whilst hunting at Golovinsky would certainly be wearisome to the general reader; and even the keenest sportsman has enough blank days of his...
23. CHAPTER VIII.Refitting--Our mongrels--Shipping our spoils--Visitors--Stepan’s yarns--The hedgehog--Legend of the bracken--The Euxine in a fury--Trebogging--Traces of Tscherkess villages--Eno...
24. CHAPTER IX.Return to Heiman’s Datch--Bears--Stepan’s shooting apparatus--Journey to Duapsè--A delightful dinner--Interview with the Governor--Insects--German farm--A dangerous adventure--A...
25. CHAPTER X.The Russo-Turkish War--Sukhoum--Alleged abundance of game--Poti--My fellow-travellers--Sport in Kutais--Arrival in Tiflis--Hotels and other features of the town--The British Con...
26. CHAPTER XI.Start from Tiflis--My yemstchik--Travelling-carts--Caucasian road-makers--Camel caravans--On the bleak steppe--Persian hawking--Subterranean dwellings--Shooting at Kariur--Eliza...
27. CHAPTER XII.Gerdaoul--Shooting partridges--Native wine-vaults--Expedition among the hills--Native houses--An inhospitable village--A dangerous ride--A welcome reception--Shepherd-boys--The...
28. CHAPTER XIII.Rough travelling--Shooting by the way--Shemakha and Aksu--Tarantasses and post-roads--A wretched station--Mud volcanoes and naphtha springs--Bustards--On the road to Salian--Swa...
29. CHAPTER XIV.Lenkoran--Abundance of game--Eryvool forest--Native fowlers--A hunting lodge--Swarming coverts--Wild boar--A paradise for sportsmen--Pigs at bay--‘Old Shirka’ and his quarry--A...
30. CHAPTER XV.Poti--Chasing wild boar--Red-deer--Turks and Cossacks--Sotcha--Lynxes--Game in the Caucasus--A hunting party--A wounded sow--Beautiful scene--An unexpected bag--Our _cuisine_--T...