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                                 SPORT
                                IN THE
                          CRIMEA AND CAUCASUS

                          LONDON: PRINTED BY
                SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
                         AND PARLIAMENT STREET




                                 SPORT
                                  IN
                        THE CRIMEA AND CAUCASUS

                                  BY

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

                  LATE BRITISH VICE-CONSUL AT KERTCH

                            [Illustration]

                                LONDON

             RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET

            Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen

                                 1881

                         _All rights reserved_




CONTENTS.


                              CHAPTER I.

                         SPORT IN THE CRIMEA.

                                                                   PAGE

    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--