Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus

· 1918

Outfit--The droshky--A merry party--The Straits of Kertch--The steppe--Wild-fowl--Crops--The Malos--The ‘Starrie Metchat’--Game--Tscherkess greyhounds--Stalking bustards--A picnic--Night on the steppe 1 A frozen sea--Swarms of wild-fowl--The Indo-European telegraph--Sledging on the Azov--A desolate scene--Taman--Journey inland--Tumerūk--Hotels--A dangerous sleep--Foxes--Wolves--A hasty retreat--Ekaterinodar--Supper in the forest of Crasnoi Lais--An exciting night’s sport--Driving the forest--Cossack beaters--Wild deer--Other game--The bag--Rations of vodka--A Cossack orgy--Vulpine sagacity--Wolf stories--Return to Kertch 15…

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