Already it seems to me that to get here again is like coming home.

I have been going about for the last few days amongst the mountaineers and trying to make their acquaintance.

It is a tough job; and I can see that there will be nothing but to stick to it.

They are in reality the most primitive people I ever met--the most fixed to their own ideas, which belong to centuries back.

I can understand now what people were like in England--not in Queen Elizabeth's time, for that was civilized time, but in the time of Coeur-de-Lion, or even earlier--and all the time with the most absolute mastery of weapons of precision.