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six “ refuges,” but in 1903 an avalanche came down and 
carried away one of the refuges. He passed through the 
village of Simplon on to the Italian side where the road made 
a tremendous zigzag passing through a tunnel. He showed 
the Gorge and galleries of the Gondo about two miles above 
where the Simplon tunnel came out on the Italian side. While 
making excursions in the Saas Valley on one occasion he was 
unable to reach his hotel in the evening or to send a telegram, 
and next day he learned that a search party had been sent 
out, but at the time they started he was comfortably in bed 
elsewhere. He lingered in the Zermatt Valley where the 
Matterhorn dominated. The amateur photographer was 
always anxious to get the Matterhorn into every one of his 
views, but in the end his anxiety was how to get a view without 
it. Monte Rosa, the Gornergrat, and other well-known moun- 
tains came in for special attention. In the Zinal Valley he 
found a row of miserable chalets at some 5,000 feet high. The 
inhabitants were poor cow-keepers. They lived wherever 
it was necessary for the cows to be, and they were in different 
places at different times of the year. They followed the cows 
and kept three establishments going. One point was called 
“ Roche de la vache.” In the next valley — Evollna valley — 
the people were supposed to be of a different race from the 
rest of the canton and their costume was different. It was 
often a serious hardship to them when the snow did not fall 
till January, because they are then delayed in bringing down 
the logs. Nothing rejoiced them more than a good fall of 
snow early in the winter. 
Many views of the lovely scenery of the Chamounix Valley 
were then thrown on the screen and the lecturer gave a graphic 
account of climbing incidents and accidents in that interest- 
ing region. One of the best ways of seeing the Chamounix 
Valley was to take a sledge from Argentiere. The Aiguilles 
afforded very fascinating climbs, and many climbers went 
year after year to them. 
