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the Black Sea. This was the second invitation 

 of the kind which we had received since we 

 left Odessa, and I am bound to say that the 

 traveller and sportsman is more likely to be 

 hindered by the very number of kind friends 

 he will meet with in the Caucasus, than to be 

 baffled for want of a helping hand. 



I'm afraid I can't say a good word for the 

 officials of the Poti Tiflis railway. They seem 

 to me to be a dreamy, muddle-headed lot. 

 On this occasion their particular iniquity was 

 the sending of my luggage right through to 

 Tiflis at their own expense and to my great 

 discomfort, although I had taken every care to 

 have it sent to Kutais, and was in possession 

 of their ticket, on receipt of which they were 

 bound to deliver my goods to me at Kutais. 



If I might venture to make a suggestion to 

 such great ones as the directors of a railway, 

 it would be that they should forbid the use of 

 cigarettes by their clerks in office hours. In 



