. Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere . om 11,400 to 12,200 feet in height (thelast being, I believe, the loftiest in the Austrian Alps),besides traversing a fourth, the beautiful Janiger Scharte,first crossed last year by my friend Herr Mojsisovics, theSecretary of the Austrian Alpen-Verein. Our receptionat Grampenhofe was most friendly; the weather wascharming, and promised well for the morrow; and as welay stretched at our ease upon the soft turf, quaffingbowls of creamy milk, in full view of the Orteler andKonigsspitz, recalling pleasant memories of past triumphs,and anticipating fresh victori
. Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere . om 11,400 to 12,200 feet in height (thelast being, I believe, the loftiest in the Austrian Alps),besides traversing a fourth, the beautiful Janiger Scharte,first crossed last year by my friend Herr Mojsisovics, theSecretary of the Austrian Alpen-Verein. Our receptionat Grampenhofe was most friendly; the weather wascharming, and promised well for the morrow; and as welay stretched at our ease upon the soft turf, quaffingbowls of creamy milk, in full view of the Orteler andKonigsspitz, recalling pleasant memories of past triumphs,and anticipating fresh victories, we might be pardoned ifour reflections were at times of an exultant order, as werested in happy unconsciousness of what a few hours wereto bring forth. Travellers in the Suldenthal usually avail themselvesof the hospitality of the worthy Greistlicher at St. Gertrud(or Sulden), about half-an-hour lower down the valley,but Grampenhofe itself, being inhabited throughout theyear, furnishes better quarters than are usually to be met. Sie. schlafe A NIGHT ADVENTURE IN THE SULDENTHAL. 163 with at so considerable an elevation (6,165 feet), andwithin a quarter of an hour of the foot of the glacier;half-an-hour, too, is worth saving in a long days work, sowe decided to let well alone, and contented ourselveswith sending Christian and Franz down in the course ofthe afternoon for fresh supplies of cheese, bread, and wine,with which they returned in time for the evening by one the various members of the household droppedin, and as soon as the table was cleared, a little entertain-ment was improvised for our worthy hosts and theirfamily, in the shape of sundry simple conjuring tricks,winding up with a display of 6 drawing-room lightningand magnesium wire, a small store of which portablearticles can highly be recommended to mountaineers, asan unfailing means of making themselves agreeable tothe simple Alpine folk. Amidst shouts of Was furKunst! 6 Das ist Hexerei! and peals of mer
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