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TRAVEL AND MOUNTAINEERING IN SUANETIA 255
his house we halted for tea. He was a hearty person, but our
conversation was necessarily limited. He set my mind, however,
at rest as to the native origin of the names I have used since
1868 for the two most conspicuous mountains of Suanetia.
'
Ushha,
Tetnuld,' he exclaimed, as he sat on his balcony and waved his
hand to the two peaks, which were both in sight. Samovars
always take a long time preparing,
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and male Caucasians are as
prone as the women of other nations to linger over afternoon tea.
To arrive before dark we had to push our animals at a trot up a
staircase-path where boughs threatened to sweep
the rider from
his saddle. After two hoiu's' ride we found the shepherds' quarters,
a good log hut.
Of course the first idea of our Caucasian companions was not
bed— or rather sleep, but supper. They set to work to boil a
sheep in the hut. Next to boiled mutton, the smell of it is a chief