TEOPHIES OF THE CHASE. 11 



manner of stomach complaints amongst them- 

 selves. 



The Svans are very particular about their 

 trophies of the chase, and, dearly as they love 

 money, don't seem to care much about parting 

 with any considerable quantity of the horns in 

 their possession. Once a year, each of the 

 hunters who goes mto Kutais takes vdih him 

 a few of the best of his ibex horns, for which 

 he gets a fair price from the cup -makers and 

 Asiatic merchants of that town ; but if you 

 want to see his collection of horns at home, 

 you must go with him wp into his tower, for 

 the Svan has a superstition that if his trophies 

 are seen by daylight outside his own walls, his 

 luck in the chase will cease. 



When we came down from Simon's 

 museum, that little savage had gone up con- 

 siderably in our estimation, and our spmts 

 rose in spite of our hunger at what we now 

 looked on as the sure prospect of good sport. 



