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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



SPORT IN THE CRIMEA. 



PACK 



Outfit The droshky A merry party The Straits of Kertch 

 The steppe Wild-fowl Crops The Malos The ' Starrie 

 Metchat ' Game Tscherkess greyhounds Stalking bustards 



A picnic Night on the steppe ...... 1 



CHAPTER II. 



CRASNOI LAIS. 



A frozen sea Swarms of wild-fowl The Indo-European tele- 

 graph Sledging on the Azov A desolate scene Tarnan 

 Journey inland Tumeruk Hotels A dangerous sleep 

 Foxes Wolves A hasty retreat Ekaterinodar Supper in 

 the forest of Crasnoi Lais An exciting night's sport Driving 

 the forest Cossack beaters -Wild deer Other game The 

 bag Rations of vodka A Cossack orgy Vulpine sagacity 



Wolf stories Ileturn to Kertch . < . . .15 



CHAPTER III. 



ODESSA AND MISKITCHEE. 



Mountaineers and Shikaree.' Outfit Journey from London to 

 Odessa Snipe-shooting on the Dnieper A drunken yra- 

 stchik A collision Prince VorontzofF Aloupka Yalta 

 Livadia and Orianda Miskitchee lake A Tartar butcher- 

 Native hovels A shooting party on the lake A dreary 

 bivounc . ....... 



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