Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-26
MIXTURE OF PEOPLES
FOUND ON THE SLOPES OF THE
GREAT CAUCASUS.
From the London News.

/ AN''' 49, '~N'''~A $500
The traveller who should seek to cross
! from the southern Mains NJ Russia over
| IT,, pr,, ~ .,,,a -, a. 10 ho+u.a,
.e % %" VI ~ INC 1U 90
| the caspian ana the BLACK seas Wouio nho
himself confronted by sight which for
gloom and terror has hardly any equal In
/ tha ,ror,d pfsf,n shoa, ,ror, tho ,..s+ r,a
plain. like a great foam crested biiIow
about to break on desolate beach, bill
| low 10000 feet high and 500 miles long. the
snow capped Caucasus stretches across
| from sea to sea with dreadful, threaten
ing, savage majesty OF mien,
It's peaks are not 50 high as many OF the
Alps, 1t has not the projecting spurs and
| isolated craggy heights whose groupings
give new and heautifuI views at every
stan II 10 ,,st q, ,r,r,orso mountain chain
| - 49, IN .Se >
| an unoroKen foid or crease on the earth 8
sur urtace. ihou8h the APPS nave nIsner PeahS
,ne fowSsl pass across sie Saucasus 10 neat
~ double the height of the Alpine crossing
Piaces. Inc caucasus mas no lakes, oniy
suroio muooy rivers moving from the ice
neiu VI its central rlase. Even these are
t .ssns IN me East, where Inc fioee io"ers
'omaro .he caspian
bu. tne terror ana desolation or tne
CauSasus lorever KEPT apart the Peopies
40 nne hor.h anu SCUM. IN ths one manu-
tIoiis rose anu iehItne BABY iohiah,
1,ie Assyrlan, tne Greek, the Egyptian. the
nonuah, the rePuDiics OF the Mlouie Ages
i ~. ~ .Ie nor'n the sreat plals were ever
ihi,iplteu ny the WHO Ia"less nonaos
! A til 50 Iron tue very pesihhihss VI tine
. Wv. caucasus mas stayeu lhe human lsoe,
thn.,, "S Eo.iqutiih ldees s"ep. an oeiu ,i
men peio" the weak me peaceaoie; tne
,nta nave Deen driven nisher ana hisher
INTO inaccessible gorges ana WHO, Dog
0o'eAeu Faheys.
Dating Back to Antiuuity
A ..r.na. ,,,,x.,,ro ,a.;, hail,
from immemorable antiquity. has been
washed UP like surf onto the slopes of these
giant mountains. The I'd the Kurin, the
Avar, the Tush belong to races that per-
ished before Europe was discovered. Seven
languages are spoken in the Caucasus. each
9nfntelligfbie to the tribes using the rest
%, Oh mem are Ieialed TO tne cary
antilles and seen, to he among The Isn-
guages of Babel that did not "catch on
Here amid these mountains ws have tho
ghosts Of ancient neonIes usho have aone
under in tho wor,d strfIgota Tbara 80
well be trfbesmen here whose ancestor
was drivan hiob by H. anaS - aattid
within sight Of Ararat and his cousin Noah
There are stnI tribes rrhn arrav than,s seize.
In belmets ard cb.i, .r,r o and SCI We,
spears like those Of 600 wears ago Others
have strange ritual nracticas that haro
come down iron, The dsn,, - tha ,,na1s
minplInp tbedr ~, ON ritas n,i,h un,.htn
of the "Christ Cod and the angels Of the
river, the forest and tho nnountoIn Thnv
blood u
tons Hive tbosa of ftorsios :, ~ 80
It ia a rnistake IN Snnnosa TIT p,,ss,
took the Caucasus hy geraraI no liz
movement There rrss M naad n;idS
by religions into Ctbr,stjans Moha,,rnaaaue
and narans div,dad h~ 1ana,,a aas ,7'tini'
made them mutually nnintefiiei6ia suraIu
II Esneranto 10 naedsd anyn.hara - .; 49,
the tribes of this stranee rnusonn, ~ ~
gone races could tala ne unitaS anti ~ ~
RUSSIA and the Caucasus.
THROUGHOUT the fret tbree-ou.rtors of +ra
rfnetaen+h oort,,., p.,-,- % -
r., nussia was employed III
dosof pihs the caucasus piece by piece.
only two of the Caucasian races made any
thing like strong resistance In tho east
a Mobammedan nronba+ c,.r,,,, -. ~.
Avar stock, which overran a great part
or Europe In the seventh century, and was
tha nsa.ai eonq ~ by Chariemagne, led
war AGAINST Rnssia Crsft, ih lensious
fertile in resource, occupying mountain
slopes cut by impossible gorges, Shamyl
"har uee Tssa oy ms followers to have
built forts and military raads ana srads
ually Enclosed him at enormous EXPENSE
did Shamyl surrender at his castle Of
Euiiip IA loo9 he passed some years Of
,n aDIe captlFily near MOSCOW, and was
~" aioweu as d oeVout Mohammedan to
ei1v MS , uss IA peace at mecca.
1assas al C Sr. was the story or the Tcher-