CONTENTS. 



PAK 



ing ' our photographs A mountain chalet The snow peaks 

 Wild goats and sheep Difficult mountaineering An 

 alluring chase Suspended over a precipice A bleak night's 

 lodging Mountain turkeys Black pheasants Lammergiers 

 Advice to travellers Return to Goktchai .... :2oo 



CHAPTER XIII. 



FROM GOKTCHAI TO LENKORAN. 



Rough travelling Shooting by the way Shemakha and Aksu 

 Tarantasses and post-roads A wretched station Mud 

 volcanoes and naphtha springs Bustards On the road to 

 Salian Swarms of wild-fowl A rascally official Disap- 

 pointed hopes A good Samaritan Rival hosts Asiatic 

 fever The Mooghan steppe Pelicans and myriads of other 

 birds Tartar orgies Banished secretaries : the Molochans 

 and Skoptsi Arrival at Lenkoran A Persian gunsmith 

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CHAPTER XIV. 



SHORES OF THE CASPIAN. RETURN TO TIFLIS. 



Lenkoran Abundance of game Eryvool forest Native fowlers 

 A hunting lodge Swarming coverts Wild boar A para- 

 dise for sportsmen Pigs at bay ' Old Shirka ' and his quairy 

 A dying eagle Caspian woodpeckers Festive nights 

 Watching for a tiger Forest life by night The eagle-owl 

 and his prey End of a long vigil The rainy season The 

 streets of Lenkoran The return journey to Tiflis Adventure 

 at adji Kabool Experiences of post-travel Bullying n 

 station-master Armenian Protestants Russian telegraph 

 service In miserable plight A spill over a precipice Refit- 

 ting our tarantasse Aryumentum ad hominem An awkward 

 predicament Chasing a yemstchik Renewed life at Tiflis 

 Great snow-fall Running down antelope The ' black death ' 31 1 



