GAELIC IN THE CAUCASUS.
THE H_E__Al.M_-_N ABROAD. AFTER TIVE CENTURIES. (Received 1.30 p.m.. LONDON, March 28. The "Times" correspondent at Rotterdam tells of the discovery in the Caucasus of the descendants of Scotch Highlanders who landed at Trebizond in the iifteenth century-. They lived in a village in the mountains near Batoum, and were blue-eyed, red haired, wore kilts and sporrans, and played bagpipes made out of pigs' bladders. They spoke a mixture of Gaelic and Georgian, and a Tartar correspondent offers to escort ethnologists to the village.— ("Times.")
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 76, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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