CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE VALLEYS OF THE TEREK, ARDON, AND RION. 



PAGE 



A Geographical Disquisition — The Upper Terek — Savage Scenery — Fero- 

 cious Dogs — Abano — A Dull Walk— Hard Bargaining — An Unruly 

 Train — A Pass — Zacca, on the Ardon — A Warm Skirmish and a Barren 

 Victory — An Unexpected Climb — The Lower Valley — A Kussian Koad 

 — Teeb— The Ossetes— The Mamisson Pass— Adai Khokh— A Shift 

 in the Scenery — Gurscha^d — The Boy-Prince — An Idle Day — View from 

 the Khododendron Slope — Glola — The Pine-Forests of the Kion — Chiora 208 



CHAPTEE IX. 

 THE GLACIERS AND FORESTS OF THE CENTRAL CAUCASUS. 



Caucasian Shepherds — A Lovely Alp — Sheep on the Glacier- — A New Pass 

 — A Snow Wall — A Rough Glen — The Karagam Glacier — Bivoiiac in the 

 Forest — An Icefall — A Struggle and a Victory — The Upper Snowfields 

 — The Watershed at last — Check — A Usefid Gully — An Uneasy Night 

 — Glola again — Pantomime — Gebi^Curious VilLigers — A Bargain for 

 Porters — Azalea Thickets — The Source of the Rion — Rank Herbage 

 — Camp on the Zenes-Squali — A Low Pass — Swamps and Jungles — 

 Path-jBnding — The Glen of the Scena—AVide Pasturages — TheNaksagar 

 Pass 245 



CHAPTER X. : 



SU-^ETIA. 



Free Suanetia, Past and Present — Herr Eadde's Experiences — Physical 

 Features — Fortified Villages — Jibiani — Pious Savages — A Surprise — 

 Glaciers of the Ingur — Petty Theft — Threats of Robbery — Alarms and 

 Excursions^ — A Stormy Parting — The Horseman's Home — The Ruined 

 Tower — A Glorious Icefall — Adisch — Sylvan Scf-nery — The Mushaluliz 

 — Suni — Ups and Downs — Midday Halt — Latal — A Suanetian Farm- 

 house — Murder no Crime — Tau Totonal — A Sensation Scene — The Cau- 

 casian MMterhorn — Pari at last — Hospitable Cossacks . . . 292 



