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SPORT
IN THE
CRIMEA AND CAUCASUS
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LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
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SPORTINTHE CRIMEA AND CAUCASUS
BY

CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, F.R.G.S.

LATE BRITISH VICE-CONSUL AT KERTCH
FIDE ET FIDUCIA RB
LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1881
All rights reserved
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CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER I.

SPORT IN THE CRIMEA.
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Outfit—The droshky—A merry party—The Straits of Kertch—Thesteppe—Wild-fowl—Crops—The Malos—The ‘StarrieMetchat’—Game—Tscherkess greyhounds—Stalking bustards—Apicnic—Night on the steppe1
CHAPTER II.

CRASNOI LAIS.
A frozen sea—Swarms of wild-fowl—The Indo-European telegraph—Sledgingon the Azov—A desolate scene—Taman—Journeyinland—Tumerūk—Hotels—A dangerous sleep—Foxes—Wolves—Ahasty retreat—Ekaterinodar—Supper inthe forest of Crasnoi Lais—An exciting night’s sport—Drivingthe forest—Cossack beaters—Wild deer—Other game—Thebag—Rations of vodka—A Cossack orgy—Vulpine sagacity—Wolfstories—Return to Kertch15
CHAPTER III.

ODESSA AND MISKITCHEE.
Mountaineers and Shikaree—Outfit—Journey from London toOdessa—Snipe-shooting on the Dnieper—A drunken yemstchik—Acollision—Prince Vorontzoff—Aloupka—Yalta—Livadiaand Orianda—Miskitchee lake—A Tartar butcher—Nativehovels—A shooting party on the lake—A drearybivouac41
CHAPTER IV.

THE RED FOREST AND BLACK SEA COAST.
Journey to Taman—Downpour on the steppe—Tscherkess bourkas—Long-tailedhorses—Absence of cultivation—The Moujiks—Causesof political discontent in Russia—Veneration for theCzar—Cheapening supplies—A Russian writer on Englishwomen—Poststations—A terrible tragedy—Hotels—Ekaterinodar—Thefair—Russian tea—Russian police—Bivouackingwith Cossack foresters—Exciting sport—Shooting a whiteboar—Sad disappointment—Pheasant-shooting—A Cossackcolonel—An execrable journey—Caucasian women—Greatconsumption of supplies—In a Cossack saddle—Mineralsprings—A scorching bath—Lotus-eaters—Incidents of theroad—An insolent Tartar—Parting59
CHAPTER V.

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