20 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



and told the Jehu to take me to such and 

 such a street. ' Xarocho ' ('All right') is 

 the answer, and off you go up one street and 

 down another, until it suddenly occurs to you 

 that this is by no means the direction in 

 which you had been led to believe your 

 destination lay. On inquiry you will find 

 your driver has not a notion where the place 

 is you want to get to, and has only refrained 

 from admitting his ignorance for fear of losing 

 his fare. So it was on this occasion ; and 

 in the s'loamino; we found ourselves wander- 

 ing about on the steppe, no landmarks in 

 sight, no village near, and still no sign of 

 that long line of marshland on the horizon 

 wherein Troitsky is situated. 



Up to this point there had been little enough 

 in the drive to repay us for the dust and the 

 bone-shaking we had endured. Odessa itself, 

 which took a long time getting out of, is not 

 a thing of beauty, though over and over again 



