72 SAVAGE SVANETIA 



CHAPTER III. 



THROUGH RADCHA. 



KuTAis is not a lively place even for the 

 Caucasus, and seen by eyes that no heavy 

 supper overnight has made captious and hard 

 to please in the morning. To us, then, on 

 the morning after the supper of princes, to us 

 who had endured nearly a week by rail and 

 another by sea, to escape from the trammels of 

 civilised life and revel in wild sport, it seemed 

 so unendurably dull that, in spite of a heavy 

 damp heat reminding one of the interior 

 of a Turkish bath, we set to work with a will 

 to get horses and prepare for a start for 

 Svanetia before dusk. 



