Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus

CHAPTER XI.

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EN ROUTE FOR DAGHESTAN.

Start from Tiflis--My yemstchik--Travelling carts--Caucasian road-makers--Camel caravans--On the bleak steppe--Persian hawking--Subterranean dwellings--Shooting at Kariur--Elizabetpol--An execrable journey--Hawks and starling--Banditti--Curing official corruption at Tiflis--Goktchai--A wearying day’s sport--Fear of highwaymen--My guide, Allai--Arrival at Gerdaoul--Hospitable Lesghians 231