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DEPARTURE FROM THE CAMP. 
Cossaks, Circassians, Georgians, Armenians, Persians, and Calmiik 
Tartars. 
The General and I rode as far as the Araxes in his carriage, whilst the 
remainder of the party were dispersed all over the country in pursuit 
of game. Two antelopes were caught by the General’s greyhounds, a 
circumstance owing to the deep damp soil over which they ran, for 
the dogs in their course made no impression upon it, whilst the sharp 
hoof of the antelope, stuck at every bound. 
I crossed the river to my own tents, and left my companion on his side 
of the water, where he pitched his. His Cossaks, in order to screen 
themselves from the sun, soon made up a temporary tent by thrusting 
three of their spears into the ground, connecting them at the top, and 
throwing their cloaks over them. 
Complaints came to me, as usual, from every quarter, how the cattle 
were left without food, and that nothing was to be got in so destitute 
a place. We learnt that the servants of the Prince’s Vizier, who had 
arrived to pitch their master’s tent, and to make ready for his 
reception, had brought corn with them; in consequence of which my 
