Chapter A Calm Decision--“I Will Ascend the

CHAPTER XXXVII A Calm Decision--“I Will Ascend the Riffelberg”--Preparations for the Trip--All Zermatt on the Alert--Schedule of Persons and Things--An Unprecedented Display--A General Turn--out--Ready for a Start--The Post of Danger--The Advance Directed--Grand Display of Umbrellas--The First Camp--Almost a Panic--Supposed to be Lost--The First Accident--A Chaplain Disabled--An Experimenting Mule--Good Effects of a Blunder--Badly Lost--A Reconnoiter--Mystery and Doubt--Stern Measures Taken--A Black Ram--Saved by a Miracle--The Guide's Guide

Chapter Our Expedition Continued--Experiments with the

CHAPTER XXXVIII Our Expedition Continued--Experiments with the Barometer--Boiling Thermometer--Barometer Soup--An Interesting Scientific Discovery--Crippling a Latinist--A Chaplain Injured--Short of Barkeepers--Digging a Mountain Cellar--A Young American Specimen--Somebody's Grandson--Arrival at Riffelberg Botel--Ascent of Gorner Grat--Faith in Thermometers--The Matterhorn

Chapter Guide Books--Plans for the Return of the Expedition--A

CHAPTER XXXIX Guide Books--Plans for the Return of the Expedition--A Glacier Train--Parachute Descent from Gorner Grat--Proposed Honors to Harris Declined--All had an Excuse--A Magnificent Idea Abandoned--Descent to the Glacier--A Supposed Leak--A Slow Train--The Glacier Abandoned--Journey to Zermatt--A Scientific Question

Chapter Glaciers--Glacier Perils--Moraines--Terminal

CHAPTER XL Glaciers--Glacier Perils--Moraines--Terminal Moraines--Lateral Moraines--Immense Size of Glacier--Traveling Glacier----General Movements of Glaciers--Ascent of Mont Blacc--Loss of Guides--Finding of Remains--Meeting of Old Friends--The Dead and Living--Proposed Museum--The Relics at Chamonix

Chapter The Matterhorn Catastrophe of 1563--Mr Whymper's

CHAPTER XLI The Matterhorn Catastrophe of 1563--Mr Whymper's Narrative--Ascent of the Matterhorn--The Summit--The Matterhorn Conquered--The Descent Commenced--A Fearful Disaster--Death of Lord Douglas and Two Others--The Graves of the Two

Chapter Switzerland--Graveyard at Zermatt--Balloting for

CHAPTER XLII Switzerland--Graveyard at Zermatt--Balloting for Marriage--Farmers as Heroes--Falling off a Farm--From St Nicholas to Visp--Dangerous Traveling--Children's Play--The Parson's Children--A Landlord's Daughter--A Rare Combination--Ch iIIon--Lost Sympathy--Mont Blanc and its Neighbors--Beauty of Soap Bubbles--A Wild Drive--The King of Drivers--Benefit of getting Drunk