4 MY FIRST VISIT TO THE ENGADINE. 



At Samaden we also found a friend of Professor Hering's, 

 Herr Schmidt, of Wismar. 



By this time our carriage was ready, and we proceeded to 

 complete the remaining four miles of our journey to Pon- 

 tresina; it was almost dusk as we reached that village, but 

 there was just sufficient light to enable us to see the Roseg 

 glacier at the end of the valley. 



The Krone was quite full, but the landlord had secured 

 rooms for us in an adjoining domicile, and so we got com- 

 fortably housed. 



The morning of the 12th July, our first morning at Pontre- 

 sina, opened inauspiciously, dull with low clouds, and before 

 long a drizzle, and then rain ; but after the roasting we had 

 undergone at Paris the previous week, how delicious it was 

 to wash in water so cold that it actually numbed your 

 fingers ! We turned out soon after eight to go to the Krone to 

 breakfast, and I looked anxiously round the room for any of 

 ray Entomological friends, but not finding any, had recourse 

 to the landlord, who could, however, give me no tidings of 

 them. After breakfast, though then raining pretty smartly, 

 I set out in search of the Weisses Kreuz, but overlooking 

 the very small sign hung out, and there being no other indi- 

 cation whatever to the inns at Pontresina, I got a walk and 

 a wetting, but no other result for my pains, and returned to 

 the Krone feeling rather forlorn and ill-used because the 

 weather was bad. After waiting, however, some three- 

 quarters of an hour I thought I would try my luck at 

 another part of the village, and whilst walking thither I 

 overtook Professor Hering and Herr Schmidt, from whom 

 I learnt that the Dr. Staudinger and Herr von Heineinann 

 were stopping at the Weisses Kreuz, that they had walked 

 over from Samaden in the rain, and having failed in getting 

 in at the Weisses Kreuz or the Krone, were going on to the 



