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A Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus; With a Chapter on the Languages of the Country

A Trip Through the Eastern Caucasus; With a Chapter on the Languages of the Country


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. FROM NUKHA TO AKHTI. Shin?Crossing the Main Chain?Bivouac at the Summit?The Dogs?A Caravanserai?Burj?Music?Khnoi?The Needless Alarm of the Incubus ?Tunnel?Women's Work?Akhti ? Its Hot Springs?Transfer of Disease by Rugs?Visit to the liussiau Governor. Nukha, July 8th.?About 6.30 a.m. the expedition, headed by old Ma'amed, began to file out of the double gateway in front of our quarters. The baggage was so light that all could be packed into four pairs of saddle-bags, and carried by the four horses in addition to their riders. After traversing a couple of lanes we struck the road by which we had entered the town five nights before, and could now see what we had missed during the darkuess. To the left lay a wide stretch of plain, partly under cultivation, and dotted with villages. On the right we had the more or less wooded outliers of the main chain, which I hoped to pass before night. It soon began to get very hot, and old Ma'amed hoisted his umbrella to shield his lean, rugged, patriarchal features from the too ardent rays of the sun. He was mounted on a rough mountain pony that knew how to amble steadily along at the rate of five miles an hour. He made a very goodguide, and conversed in Tatar fluently with Mejid and Akim. Tatar is very generally spoken by the natives all over Daghestan, except among the Avars, for in the Kurin country I do not remember seeing Mejid address a single man who could not reply in that language. After riding along the post-road for about three hours we turned to the right and began approaching the valley of the Shin, a word meaning water in Lesgian. The river at various times has created a number of temporary channels, each marked by a wide stripe of loose round stones brought from the mountains. All this gives a scathed and...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459025523
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459025520
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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