le lac de Daube, one of the Alpine lakes

7,265 feet above sea level, frozen over seven months of the year; about half an hour from the summit of the pass of the Gemmi, or the pass of the Daube, as it is sometimes called.

5. 14. Daubenhorn, the peak of the Daube, rises immediately from the little plateau where the lake is situated. Its summit reaches 9,585 feet.

5. 16. glacier de Laemmern. This glacier is at the foot of the Wildstrubel, which is 10,670 feet high.

5. 22. vallée du Rhône. The Rhône flows through the canton of Valais from east to west, then enters the lake of Geneva, and from there runs into the Mediterranean Sea.

5. 25. le Mischabel avec ses deux cornes. One peak is called the Taschhorn (14,757 feet), the other the Dom (14,940 feet).

Weisshom ==? the white peak (Weiss in German, "white"), 14,805 feet.

Brunnegghorn, 12,692 feet.

redoutable pyramide du Cervin. The German name of the Cervin is Matterhorn (14,705 feet). It rises above the well known summer resort Zermatt and is very dangerous to climb. It was aseended for the first time on the 14th of July, 1865, by four Englishmen and four Swiss guides. Three of the Englishmen and two of the guides lost their lives. Though the ascent is easier to-day, railings and iron ladders having been fixed at several places, still the Cervin cîaims every year a large percentage of the victims of mountain accidents in the Alps.

la Dent-Blanche, cette monstrueuse coquette (The "white tooth"), 14,320 feet. With its large, broad white field of snow it is one of the most beautiful of the Alps.

Le père Harri... The old Harri...

s'en retournèrent, same construction as s'en aller. Translate simply "went back." — Retournèrent alone would hâve the same meaning, but se retournèrent would mean to turn around, without the idea of actually going back.

Se mit à raconter, began to tell.

Le tout était d'en prendre son parti. . . The only thing to do was to resign oneself to one's fate. Do not confuse en prendre son parti with prendre un parti, which is another idiom, meaning to make up one's mind, to décide.

Tremper la soupe, to soak the bread in the soup.

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