John F. Baddeley

Quotes

• “Hospitality, as with all the mountain tribes, was - and is still - a most sacred duty; and the man who would slay a chan...”
• “It may be said without exaggeration that the mountains made the men; and the men in return fought with passionate courag...”
• “...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongs...”
• “As long as the forest stood the Tchetchens were unconquerable... and it is literally the fact that they were beaten in t...”