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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2. 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-...
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...
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...
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...
3. CHAPTER III.7. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER I.