CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE RAINS. 



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Poti Chasing wild boar Red-deer Turks and Cossacks 

 Sotcha Lynxes Game in the Caucasus A hunting party 

 A wounded sow Beautiful scene An unexpected bag 

 Our cuisine The ' evil eye ' Overtaken by the rains Our 

 tent inundated Surrounded by wolves Cheerless days A 

 terrible catastrophe Welcome help Golovinsky A wild 

 scene Eluding the storm Fording a torrent A refuge 

 Scant supplies Cossack cradle-song The Cossacks of to-day 

 Russian plantations A terrible ride Struggling for life 

 Cossack loafers Ride to Duapse Forlorn days Mad 

 wolves Wrestling a Tartar Laid up with fever Return to 

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A verst is equal to three-quarters of an English mile. 



