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THE CAUCASUS 



CHAPTER I 



AT GIBRALTAR EN ROUTE 



Thinking on the frosty Caucasus. 



Richard II. 

 Will you go with me ? 



Much Ado About Nothiyig. 



Met together to rehearse a play. 



Midsununer Night's Dream. 



At the gate of Europe is an alluring, beckoning, magical 

 country, where the centuries mingle in confused con- 

 trast, and Nature plays protagonist to herself. 



The Caucasus. 



Does not the very name breathe the weird suggestive 

 mystery of a primitive environment, the rough-hewn 

 fascination of barbaric peoples ? 



Nowhere else in all the world can be found so 

 myriad-minded and romantic a land, so many-sided, 

 so rich in colours and fertile in forms. Here is rural 

 England, there the green and gold of brackened Scot- 

 land, farther seems the great wide African veldt, or 

 the misty haze of deserts where flumes of sand rise 



