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TIFLIS.

TIFLIS.

Frontispiece.

THE KINGDOM OF GEORGIA
NOTES OF TRAVEL IN A LAND OF WOMEN, WINE, ANDSONG
TO WHICH ARE APPENDED HISTORICAL, LITERARY, ANDPOLITICAL SKETCHES, SPECIMENS OF THE NATIONAL MUSIC, AND A COMPENDIOUSBIBLIOGRAPHY
By OLIVERWARDROP
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON
Limited
St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street,E.C.
1888
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, LIMITED,
ST. JOHN’S HOUSE, CLERKENWELL ROAD. [iii]

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TO

PROFESSOR JAMES BRYCE, M.P.,

These Notes are Dedicated

(By permission),

WITH HEARTFELT GRATITUDE AND PROFOUND RESPECT.[v]

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PREFACE.

There were four of us—two Frenchmen, anItalian, and an Englishman. We had ridden from Damascus to Baalbek, andhad seen the ruins; after dinner, we were lying on heaps of cushions onthe floor, in a hostelry little known to Europeans. For some minutesthe bubbling of our narghilés was the only sound that broke thestillness of the night. Then the ex-cuirassier spoke out in a strongvoice—the voice of a man accustomed tocommand—“Gentlemen! I propose that we solemnly pass a voteof censure on the late M. de Lamartine.” “Bravo!” wasour unanimous cry; and the vote was carried

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