CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



DENSE COVERTS. 



PAGK 



Unsuccessful sport Bruin and Stepan Black bread and onions 

 Forest music Mosquitoes Ticks and other insects 

 Bruin's fondness for honey Butterflies Our larder Narrow 

 escape of Stepan Unlucky days Watching for swine 

 Otters A cold vigil An exasperating march . . .132 



CHAPTER VIII. 



HUNTING WITH DOGS. 



Refitting Our mongrels Shipping our spoils Visitors 

 Stepan's yarns The hedgehog Legend of the bracken Ihe 

 Euxine in a fury Trebogging Traces of Tscherkess vill pts 

 Enormous boars Their feeding grounds Lose a b^ai 

 Impenetrable thickets hiding the proximity of big game A 

 rare day's sport Shooting in the moonlight An expedition 

 Fever Precautions against it Unsuccessful sport and 

 hard fare 145 



CHAPTER IX. 



RETURN TO KERTCII. 



Return to Ileiman's Batch Bears Stepan's shooting apparatus 

 Journey to Duapse A delightful dinner Interview wit 'i 

 the Governor Insects German farm A dangerous ad- 

 venture A wedding supper Leave Duapse for Ekaterinodar 

 Krimsky fair Russian roughs Peasant women A show 

 booth A hazardous road Inexpensive travelling Ekate- 

 rinodar Table d'hote at the Petersburg hotel The treasury 

 Droshky-racing A beaten rival Caucasian fish Arrival 

 at Kertch . IGo 



