Category: Travel Writing
_July 29._--My destination was the Grisons. I wished to see something of the aspects of nature and of the conditions of human life in that elevated region of central Europe. I arrived at Interlaken in the evening. It had been raining heavily all the afternoon. I found people c...
_July 29._--My destination was the Grisons. I wished to see something of the aspects of nature and of the conditions of human life in that elevated region of central Europe. I a...
5. CHAPTER II.My first business now was to look for some one to take Leuthold’s place. Among the candidates who offered themselves I did not find one whose appearance and style of talk sugges...
6. CHAPTER III.Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where rolled the ocean thereon was his home; Where a blue sky, and glowing clime extends, He had the passion and the power t...
7. CHAPTER IV.The cigar mentioned at the close of the last chapter had come to an end. This brought me to the question of where I would go next? Where and how? Had I stood alone in the world,...
8. CHAPTER V._August 7._--As I foresaw that I should not to-day get beyond Andeer, I breakfasted in a leisurely style at seven o’clock, without at all feeling that my loins were girded, and...
9. CHAPTER VI.Will Fortune never come with both hands full? She either gives a stomach and no food-- Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast And takes away the stomach--such are the ric...
10. CHAPTER VII.Yet still e’en here content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Tho’ poor the peasant’s hut, his feast tho’ small, He sees his little lot the lot of...
11. CHAPTER VIII._August 10._--As I had undertaken to present myself to-day at Pontresina in time for an early dinner, I engaged a _char_ at Casaccia to take me as far as St. Moritz; and having...
12. CHAPTER IX.Ah! that such beauty varying in the light Of living nature, cannot be portrayed By words, nor by the pencil’s silent skill; But is the property of him alone, Who hath beheld it,...
13. CHAPTER X._August 13._--After breakfast walked to St. Moritz to replenish the fisc. As English sovereigns were reckoned at twenty-five francs only--the Swiss Post-office allows twenty cen...
14. CHAPTER XI._August 16._--Last night when we returned to our beds the snow was still falling: but we took it for granted that it could not continue into a third day, and, therefore, ordered...
15. CHAPTER XII.So for yourselves ye bear not fleece, ye sheep; So for yourselves ye store not sweets, ye bees; So for yourselves ye drag not ploughs, ye steers; So for yourselves ye build not...
16. CHAPTER XIII._August 20._--My plan for to-day was to walk over the Fluela Pass from Süs in the Engadin to Davos Dörfli, a little place at the head of the Davosthal, just below the summit of...
17. CHAPTER XIV._August 22._--Was off at 5 A.M. Just below Grüsch the road passed by a scene of recent devastation, very similar to what I had seen yesterday evening just above the town. A late...
18. CHAPTER XV._August 24._--Last night I had proposed that we should start this morning at 5--my usual hour for getting under weigh. But as my proposal appeared to be objectionable to the com...
19. CHAPTER XVI._August 25._--The _Parisienne’s_ estimate of the services that had been rendered to me was nine francs: a low estimate if compared with English charges; still for some even of i...