118 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



CHAPTER lY. 



KEERTEESHO. 



For our journey to Keerteesho, where the 

 mineral springs were, we were told we could 

 get no horses, and as the guides talked of its 

 being forty versts from Gebi, Frank and my- 

 self started up the first hill outside the town 

 with a feeling that hard times were going to 

 begin m real earnest, and if the guides could 

 honestly walk forty versts a day in such 

 country as this, we had better give up all idea 

 of attempting to do as they did. 



For the first day or two of our seven or 

 eight weeks' tramping in the Caucasus my 

 friend suffered a good deal from walking in 



