CHAPTER XXIII.

Another Robbery at Houidouk--Our Nomade Life--Camels--Kalmuck

Camp--Quarrel with a Turcoman Convoy, and Reconciliation--Love

of the Kalmucks for their Steppes; Anecdote--A Satza--Selenoi

Sastava--Fleeced by a Lieutenant-Colonel--Camel-drivers beaten

by the Kalmucks--Alarm of a Circassian Incursion--Sources of

the Manitch--The Journey arrested--Visit to a Kalmuck Lady--

Hospitality of a Russian Officer 208

Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. · 第 23 / 53 章