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CHAPTER IX. 



KKEUTH. 



On coming down next morning I found coffee awaiting 

 me, which Nanny had made in order that I might have 

 a warm breakfast before starting. We took the same 

 road as the preceding day, till near the summit of the 

 mountain ; we then directed our steps at once to the 

 ridge, whence a view could be obtained far down its sides 

 and into the deep bottom. Here we waited a long time, 

 in hopes that some chamois would be on the move, but 

 in vain. One of the delights attending the pursuit of 

 game in the highlands is, that, even should the pleasure 

 of a successful day's sport be wanting, the grandeur of the 

 scenery amidst which you move is in some sort a recom- 

 pense for the labour endured. It is ever varying ; and 

 should the cloud-drift or the sun-rays not produce their 

 endless changes, you are sure that in going a hundred 

 steps further some new feature will present itself, or that 

 you will see the same under a totally different aspect. 

 Our view here extended over fields of snow, stretching: 

 along the horizon into endless distance — one vast range 

 of desert and of frost. 



As nothing was to be seen we descended, intending 

 to go toward the Kaiser Klause, where we confidently 



