Ibex is also found in the higher mountain ranges.

For this (if for no other reason) Tiflis seems to be increasing in popularity every year for European tourists.

It is now an easy journey of little over a week from England, with the advantage that one may travel by land the whole way from Calais.

This route is _via_ Berlin, Cracow, Kharkoff, and Vladikavkas, and from the latter place by coach (through the Dariel Gorge) to Tiflis.
The purchase of a warm astrachan bonnet, a bourka, [C] and bashlik, [D] completed my outfit.

It now consisted of two small portmanteaus (to be changed at Teheran for saddle-bags), a common canvas sack for sleeping purposes, and a brace of revolvers.