. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. f date in the Caucasus to-day. One of the quaintest sights of the whole bazaar is its district of Kakhetia, not far from here, produces red andwhite wine, and a wine neither red nor white, but of the colourof tawny port and the taste of brown sherry. This is for thewell-to-do; the peoples wine, costing incredibly little, is thin andacid, but quite pure. Of course I have seen in many Easterncountries wine-skins and water-skins, but a w-hole ox filled withwine took me
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. f date in the Caucasus to-day. One of the quaintest sights of the whole bazaar is its district of Kakhetia, not far from here, produces red andwhite wine, and a wine neither red nor white, but of the colourof tawny port and the taste of brown sherry. This is for thewell-to-do; the peoples wine, costing incredibly little, is thin andacid, but quite pure. Of course I have seen in many Easterncountries wine-skins and water-skins, but a w-hole ox filled withwine took me by surprise. There he lay at the ditkJuni door, on 2IO ALL THE RUSSIAS his back, his feet and head cut off and the holes tied up, bloated,enormous. You call for a glass and the lace is loosed from hisforeleg and out pours the wine. The wine-shop itself is below thestreet, and below it is a deeper cellar where a match shows rowupon row of these truncated wine-filled beeves, a bovine cata-comb. In the ditkJiaii nearer the Persian bazaar I spent some rarehours, eating black bread, smoking tobacco from Isfahan, drink-. ing the slender vintage from the foreleg of the biinlxiiki, andlistening to thrilling tales of Shamyl from one who had foughtagainst him for ten years. Another experience of Tifiis is the bath. It is a luxurious,modern, tile-fronted building in the heart of the Armenian ba-zaar, belonging to a prince whose name escapes me. Abundantsprings of water strongly impregnated with sulphuretted hydro-gen supply it, and in its vaulted chambers, far below the street,there is no sound but the splash of the fountain and the rollingecho of ones own voice. The iiiassciii; however, distinguishes
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