Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus
CHAPTER XI.
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