Let us mingle with the sixteen thousand inhabitants of the Georgian capital.

Let us lose ourselves in the labyrinth of its streets, among its cosmopolitan population.

Many Jews who button their coats from left to right, as they write--the contrary way to the other Aryan peoples.

Perhaps the sons of Israel are not masters in this country, as in so many others?
That is so, undoubtedly; a local proverb says it takes six Jews to outwit an Armenian, and Armenians are plentiful in these Transcaucasian provinces.
I reach a sandy square, where camels, with their heads out straight, and their feet bent under in front, are sitting in hundreds.

They used to be here in thousands, but since the opening of the Transcaspian railway some years ago now, the number of these humped beasts of burden has sensibly diminished.