BY STEPHEN GRAHAM ❦ ❦ ❦

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

AND TWO MAPS ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦

LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD

NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXI


Turnbull & Spears, Printers, Edinburgh


CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
Prologue: How I came to be a Tramp[3]
I.Robbed in the Train[15]
II.Christmas in Little Russia[24]
III.Mummers at a Country House[38]
IV.At Uncle’s[52]
V.Among Moscow Students[60]
VI.“Love us when we are Dirty, for everyone will love us when we are Clean!”[73]
VII.A Night at a Shrine[83]
VIII.The Day after the Feast[94]
IX.A Mushroom Fair in Lent[101]
X.Departure from Moscow[108]
XI.The Coming of Summer in the Caucasus[117]
XII.The Epistle to the Caucasians[124]
XIII.A Mountain Dawn[131]
XIV.Among the Ingooshi[138]
XV.The Iron not made by Hands[149]
XVI.At a Mill on the Terek[156]
XVII.The Gorge of Dariel[163]
XVIII.At a Village Inn[167]
XIX.“Through Snow and Ice”[172]
XX.Lavrenti Cham Khotadze[176]
XXI.On the Road to Tiflis[182]
XXII.A Two-Hundred-Mile Walk[188]
XXIII.Climbing into Winter[194]
XXIV.A Night in a Koutan[199]
XXV.Over Mamison[204]
XXVI.Arrested[210]
XXVII.Five Days under Arrest[216]
XXVIII.Mr Adam[224]
XXIX.The Baptist Chapel[235]
XXX.The Woman who saw God[243]
XXXI.Ali Pasha[248]
XXXII.The Sorrowing Man[255]
XXXIII.The Cucumber Fair[262]
XXXIV.Over the Caucasus[271]
Epilogue: The Horizon[285]
Appendix: How to get About—a Chapter for Prospective Tourists[301]
Index[309]