Georgia, Indeed, Is A Somewhat Better Country Than Mingrelia, But The Manners Of The People And Their Way Of Living Is Equally Brutal; And Such Were The Distresses And Difficulties I Encountered In Travelling Through Both, That It Would Be Tedious To Relate Them.

On the 20th of July we left the abominable city of Goride, where we had suffered so many vexations, and continued, our journey through forests and over mountains, occasionally falling in with villages where we purchased provisions.

We had always to pass the nights on the ground near some spring or rivulet, during most part of our journey through Mingrelia and Georgia.

[1] We have already seen that it was the 16th of that month when Contarini arrived at Kaffa. Much confusion has occurred in the dates of this journey, which we have no means of correcting, and must, therefore, be contented with them as they are - E.

[2] The names of places in this journal are so corrupted as to be often quite unintelligible. Varsi may possibly be Vardon, in the district to the northwest of Mingrelia, named Abkhas; and Caltichea may perhaps be Sulhuali, a sea port about 30 miles to the east. Phasis probably refers to some town on the river of that name, perhaps Subastei. - E.

[3] Probably Cutais in Imeritia, on the river Riene. - E.

[4] Perhaps Sarassan, about forty miles S. E. from Cutais. - E.

[5] Apparently the same prince named Plangion a little before. - E.

[6] Gori in Georgia, on the river Kur.

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