Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Another Robbery at Houidouk--Our Nomade Life--Camels--Kalmuck Camp--Quarrel with a Turcoman Convoy, and Reconciliation--Love of the Kalmucks for their Steppes; Anecdote--A Satza--Selenoi Sastava--Fleeced by a Lieutenant-Colonel--Camel-drivers beaten by the Kalmucks--Alarm of a Circassian Incursion--Sources of the Manitch--The Journey arrested--Visit to a Kalmuck Lady-- Hospitality of a Russian Officer 208