Photo from George Kennan 



THE crooke:d trails of DAGHESTAN 



"The road . . . wound through dark canyons with almost precipitous sides, now 

 descending to the edge of a roaring torrent, then climbing in a series of shelf-like zigzags 

 to a height of a thousand feet, running for a quarter of a mile along the brink of a tremen- 

 dous precipice, climbing again half a dozen more zigzags, crossing a divide, and finally 

 plunging into a gorge equally dark, gloomy, and precipitous on the other side" (see text, 

 pages mi and 1115). 



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