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or at least, that having come from the coasts of the 

 Caspian I should be put in quarantine, I deter- 

 mined to make my way to the Black Sea, have one 

 more turn at the bears of Golovinsky, and then 

 get back to England before the fever became pre- 

 valent. The Tiflis authorities made very little 

 difficulty, only taking my larger impedimenta 

 under their care, for the purpose of disinfecting 

 them before sending them on to England ; so that 

 in another day or two I found myself once more at 

 Poti, with my faithful Ivan the Pole still with me. 



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