8 REINDEER AND SNOW-CAMELS 



caravan route, and the present Western limit of the 

 wanderings of the Bactrian camel. There they come 

 in thousands every year, arriving in the depth of 

 winter, and leaving before the snows melt on the 

 southern slope of the Caucasus. There, after the 

 caravans have unloaded, the camels can be bought 

 cheap, and be shipped from the Black Sea coast, to 

 which they are brought either by rail or road. 



