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CHAPTER V. 



HEIMAN'S BATCH. 



Duapse Tscherkess emigrants By the sea-shore Superb scenery 

 Drunken guides A Cossack station Bears Take possession of 

 a ruined villa Hiding our provisions Wild swine Astray in the 

 jungle A rough breakfast Boars in file A misstire Forest 

 fruit Lose our horses A panther Night-watch Shooting in 

 the dark On the trail arse A friendly Cossack Deserted by 

 my servants. 



AT Duapse there is an English (Indo-European) 

 telegraph station, so, though unexpectedly thrown 

 on my own resources again, I was much better off 

 than I might otherwise have been. The Englishmen 

 gave me a cordial welcome, and were very good to 

 me. Duapse, I am informed, is built on a graveyard, 

 in which are buried numbers of the victims of the 

 Russo-Tscherke>s war. In 1804, after the final 

 subjugation of the Caucasus, some 200,000 Cir- 

 cassians left the Caucasus for Trebizond, at the 

 invitation of their conquerors. They were for the 

 most part conveyed in small Turkish vessels, in 

 which they were so crowded, starved, and exposed, 

 that not more than half ever reached their destination, 

 the others dying en route. Of these a very large pro- 



