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shovels, with the corners of which you poke up 

 the ribs of your Rosinante if he is tired or sluggish. 

 Here, too, the English equestrian meets with a 

 novelty in the pace of his horse, which has been 

 taught to go at a kind of amble called ' enokod,' at 

 which pace the beast travels about twelve miles an 

 hour with very little fatigue to the rider. Very 

 few of the horses trot properly, and if they do, and 

 you attempt to rise to the trot as men do in Eng- 

 land, you meet with so much banter that you are 

 inclined to wish that they did not. The horses 

 are for the most part small, and possessed of won- 

 derful endurance, but there is one breed of horses 

 in the Caucasus that looks all over like making 



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into good hunters I mean the Khabardine. They 

 are larger, finer, and faster animals than any 

 others that I have ever seen in Russia, and their 

 price is proportionately higher. A good Khabar- 

 dine costs from 200 to 500 roubles. 



As we journeyed on from Enem the country 

 became more hilly and more wooded, and at every 

 turn we encountered the pretty little trout stream 

 Pscekupz. How often we crossed that stream 

 before we reached the sea I should be afraid to 

 guess, but it seemed to me that we were almost 

 as often in the water as out of it, and it is this 

 small stream that when flooded stops this road to 

 the Black Sea for nearly half the year. We 

 stayed for the night at some mineral springs about 



