Xll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XI. 



FROM PARI TO I'ATIGORSK, AND ASCENT OF ELBRUZ. 



PAGE 



A Captive Bear — Moore Harangues the Porters — Camp in the Forest — 

 A Plague of Flies— Lazy Porters — A Nook in the Mountains — Cattle- 

 Lifting — Across the Chain in a Snowstorm — A Stormy Debate — A 

 Log Hut — Eaksan Valley — Uruspieh — The Guest House — Villany 

 Eewarded— Minghi-Tau — An Idle Day — An Enlightened Prince — Passes 

 to the Karatchai— Tartar Mountaineers — A Night with the Shepherds 

 — A Steep Climb — Camp on the Eoeks— Great Cold — On the Snowfield 

 — In a Crevasse — Frigid Despair — A Crisis — Perseverance Eewarded — 

 The Summit — Panorama — The Eeturn — Enthusiastic Eeception — The 

 Lower Baksan — A Long Eide — A Tcherkess Village — Grassy Downs — 

 Zonitzki — Patigorsk . . . . . . . . . .337 



CHAPTER XII. 



PATIGORSK AND THE TCHEREK VALLEY. 



The Caucasian Spas— Their History and Development — View from 

 Machoucha — The Patients— Essentuky — Kislovodsk — The Narzan — 

 Hospitable Eeception — A Fresh Start — A Eussian Farmhouse — By the 

 Waters of Baksan — Naltschik — The Tcherek — Camp in the Forest — A 

 Tremendous Gorge — Balkar — A Hospitable Sheikh — The Mollah — 

 Gloomy Weather — A Solemn Parting — Granitic Cliifs — Karaoid — A 

 Mountain Panorama — Sources of the Tcherek — The Stuleveesk Pass — 

 Koschtantau and Dychtau — A Noble Peak — Our Last Camp. , ,381 



CHAPTER Xin. 



THE URUCH VALLEY AND RETURN TO TIFLIS. 



Wooded Defiles— Styr Digor — A Halt — We Meet a Cossack— A Eain- 

 storm — Zadclesk — The Gate of the Mountains — Across the Hills and 

 Through the Forest — Tuganova — Novo-Christiansky — A Christian 

 Welcome — A Wet Eide — Ardonsk — A Breakdown on the Steppe — Vladi- 

 kafkaz — A Diligence Drive — The Dariel Gorge — Eeturn to Tiflis — 

 Eeflections on'the Caucasian Chain — Its Scenery and Inhabitants — Com- 

 parison with the Alps — Hints for Travellers 422 



