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CHAPTER IX. 



RETURN TO KERTCH. 



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

 Journey to Duapse A delightful dinner Interview with the 

 Governor Insects German farm A dangerous adventure A 

 wedding supper Leave Duapse for Ekaterinodar Krimsky fair 

 Russian roughs Peasant women A show-booth A hazar- 

 dous road Inexpensive travelling Ekaterinodar Table-d'hnte&t 

 the Petersburg hotel The treasury Droshky-racing A beaten 

 rival Caucasian n'sh Arrival at Kertch. 



OF my second visit to Heiman's Dutch I shall say 

 but little, as, though interesting to me, it would 

 only entail a great deal of repetition for the reader. 

 I killed two bears, I believe, of which I bagged 

 one, the largest specimen of a brown bear I have 

 ever seen ; his head, set up by Burton, of Wardour 

 Street, is in my library now, and in no way belies 

 my description of him. With the boars we did not 

 do much good, but we at least did enough to get 

 a fresh supply of meat, though of the coarsest kind. 

 On one night I sent Stepan back along the coast 

 at his own request to fetch his dogs from Golovinsky. 

 It was a ten-verst tramp, and he chose the night to 

 do it in. I regretted when he came back next 

 morning that I had not accompanied him, for on 



