

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



appeared; but when the new world that mountain 

 life presents opened upon me, the former wish arose 

 again, and I determined that chamois -hunting should 

 now be my theme. It was a subject of which 

 nothing was known in England, and I felt sure that if 

 I were able to impart to what I wrote but a tithe of 

 the charm which the scenes described really possess, 

 it could not fail to interest. Should it not do so, the 

 fault is solely mine. 



