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who got up tlie expedition), with which to 

 angle in a Land wherein not only did we find 

 no fish but no rivers to hold any. 



One experiment of this kind is enough for 

 a lifetime ; so that the advertisements of gentle- 

 men about to conduct others to distant lands 

 for the sake of sport, having no longer any 

 attraction for me, it hardly needed the advice 

 of a too flattering reviewer to prove to me 

 that duty and pleasure alike demanded that I 

 should revisit my old hunting grounds in 

 the Caucasus, and endeavour to extend my 

 acquaintance with that neglected country. 



I had now tried hunting gregariously, and 

 found that pleasant in theory but unprofit- 

 able in practice ; I had tried the life of a 

 solitary hunter, and found solitude irksome at 

 times, but always conducive to good sport ; 

 now it was decreed that I should try a middle 

 course. A parliament of ladies decided for 

 me that my ' valuable ' life was not to be 



