314 THIRD JOURNEY TO THE CAUCASUS. 



sus offers excellent material for studying the influence 

 of the intercourse of specifically different races of men 

 in warlike as in peaceful times. It is surprising that 

 in the Caucasus the Jewish element has not proved 

 capable of coping with the Armenian. It is true Jews 

 are to be found there in tolerable numbers, but they 

 are all drivers, and have the reputation of being rough 

 fellows, always on the look-out for an opportunity of 

 displaying their superior physical strength. Trading 

 they have altogether renounced. The Russians are 

 mostly clever and shrewd men of business, can how- 

 ever, as they themselves admit, not hold their own 

 against Armenians and Greeks. The reputation for 

 greatest longheadedness in all business-relations in the 

 Caucasus as in the whole East is enjoyed by the Greek, 

 yet the Armenians, when they are banded together, 

 carry off the palm from the Greek, who always traf- 

 ficks on his own account. 



When after a few days we continued our journey 

 by railway, we found at the foot of the Kedabeg table- 

 land a new railway-station, Dalliar, from which the road 

 to Kedabeg runs by way of the new Suabian colony 

 Annenfeld. Here we found in course of construction 

 the already mentioned conduit, through which the 

 naphtha brought by rail from Baku to Dalliar was to be 

 pumped up to Kedabeg about three thousand feet. The 

 operations, as regards both the laying the tubes and the 

 arrangements of the pumping station, were proceeding 

 well, but we had to abandon the hope of seeing the 

 completed work in action before the beginning of winter. 



