. Savage Svânetia . LONDONRICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET pnblisbcrs in ©rbinarn lo ^tr ^ajestij tl^c Qutcn1883 {All rights rese fved] 511 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER IAGE VIII. USHKUL ....... 1 IX. ZASKOOKA . . . 31 X. AT THE RECTORY, LSHKUL .... 72 XI. A COURT . . . 101 XII. .SNOWED UP . . . .143 XIII. AT THE EDGE OF THE FOREST. . 165 XIV. KERAR . . . .190 XV. DJUARIA . . . . 212 XVI. WITH THE SUKHOUM BOAR HOUNDS . 232 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II. VILLAGES OF MULACH AND MUGAL . Frontispiece WARRIORS OF GOOBI AXD LESGHIA - . To face page 78 VILLAGE OF MESTIA .
. Savage Svânetia . LONDONRICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET pnblisbcrs in ©rbinarn lo ^tr ^ajestij tl^c Qutcn1883 {All rights rese fved] 511 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAPTER IAGE VIII. USHKUL ....... 1 IX. ZASKOOKA . . . 31 X. AT THE RECTORY, LSHKUL .... 72 XI. A COURT . . . 101 XII. .SNOWED UP . . . .143 XIII. AT THE EDGE OF THE FOREST. . 165 XIV. KERAR . . . .190 XV. DJUARIA . . . . 212 XVI. WITH THE SUKHOUM BOAR HOUNDS . 232 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. II. VILLAGES OF MULACH AND MUGAL . Frontispiece WARRIORS OF GOOBI AXD LESGHIA - . To face page 78 VILLAGE OF MESTIA . . ,. 114 VILLAGE OF MOULAHI AND OUJBA MOUNTAIN ,. 226. -i^ *. CHAPTER VIII. USHKUL. Until we reached the long tableland, be-yond which lay Mookraer and Ushkul, ourroad, ever since we left Kiitais, had woundthrough a densely wooded countiy, a landof boulder-strewn ravines and rapid moun-tain torrents, lying dark and cool in theshadow of dense forests. Now all this was VOL. IL B \7 2 SAVAGE SVANETIA. chano-ed. We were on the crest of a liio-htableland, sloping gradually away towardsand beyond Uslikul. Round us stretchedgreat fells of short grass, studded with a smallorano-e-coloured crocus, and trees for the timeceased to be a feature in the landscape. Having passed the round hill which seemsto block the road to Mookmer, and its twoblackened towers (the first Svanetian build-ings we had seen), we came suddenly uponthe river Ingour, still small and brook-like,not having long left the side of its parentmountain, Kamquam. Alono; the bank of the Ino-our stretchthe three hamlets which compose Mookmer ;villages at first sight composed not of huts
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