2C4 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



suspected his rights as owner of the property 

 were not always respected. He told me that 

 he paid a few roubles a year to the Tiflis 

 Government for the sole rio-ht of orrazino- his 

 cattle and felling timber in this valley, and 

 as nobody else wanted to fell the timber 

 or had cattle here to graze — as, moreover, he 

 seemed to fell no timber himself — I fancy the 

 Government got the best of the bargain. 



At Imat's hut we rested awhile, and then 

 as the weather seemed settled for at least a 

 week's steady rain, Platon and I abandoned 

 all idea of keeping ourselves dry, and simply 

 set our whole hearts on getting to Djuaria as 

 quickly as possible. 



Englishmen in the last seven years have 

 learnt a good deal about ram, but for all that 

 to know what the skies are really capable of, 

 they should see a good steady storm on the 

 Ingour. The showers were so heavy that 

 they seemed to form thick veils of shifting 



