Old-Time Travel; Personal Reminiscences of the Continent Forty Years Ago Compared With Experiences of the Present Day
Old-Time Travel; Personal Reminiscences of the Continent Forty Years Ago Compared With Experiences of the Present Day
Shand, Alexander Innes, 1832-1907
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But the daring of kings and conquerors has been £ur surpassed by the heroic endurance of obscure monks, who resigned themselves to daily perils and to deaths from lingering disease, in sure and certain hope of rewards in the future. The cost of running the hospice is enormous ; the provisions are brought up from St Pierre or Aosta; the fuel has to be h 162 SWISS TOURING [^h^ fetched from the Val de Ferret ; and, at the eleva- tion of eight thousand feet, the fires are slow to bum and the kettle... to boiL The house is kept open to all-comers, and even in winter, when the snow lies thirty feet deep, there is daily traffic over the Pass. Never was their hospitality more heavily taxed than when they entertained Napoleon and his army, and though the great conqueror was free-handed enough, it landed them in temporary insolvency. Depending chiefly on the generosity of their guests, it was embarrassing to loiter tact- frilly behind the guide who showed the chapel and drop your contribution into the money-box.
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