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climbing to have much time for looking for game. 

 And indeed the book itself leads one to infer 

 this. The climbing of almost impracticable moun- 

 tains and the pursuit of great game could not be 

 combined by any one. To achieve success in 

 either pursuit is enough for most men. 



After passing a week in preparing my outfit, 

 which was by no means a formidable one, I was 

 ready to start. An ' express rifle,' a double-barrel 

 smoothbore (C. F. No. 12), fitted with metal 

 cartridge-cases, which when inserted converted the 

 gun into a muzzle-loader, a suit of moleskin, one of 

 Rouch's photographic apparatuses, and a pair of 

 Dean's field boots, were the chief items in my 

 outfit. The first three articles are indispensable, the 

 other two absolutely useless, as I was unable to 

 work the one, and had but little occasion to test the 

 other. Besides, I believe Mr. Dean's boots are not 

 much good without the dubbin supplied with 

 them, and this my servant promptly lost. No 

 doubt properly used with this, they are as excellent 

 as their many advocates believe them to be. 



The most difficult thing to get was a really good 

 map of the Caucasus, containing the names of the 

 principal small streams and villages. This I after- 

 wards secured in Russia under the name of ' Map of 

 the Caucasian Isthmus,' by Professor Dr. Karl Koch 

 (' Karte von dcm Kaukasischen Isthmus,' Berlin, 

 1850). In this map most of the important villages 



