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have been following a narrow lake in a narrow valley.
At Mühlehorn the great snowy peak showed in the cleft of the mountains. We passed through two more tunnels before we reached Murg.
Some of the travelers are Italians, and most of them carry small wooden trunks, or boxes.
At Sargans very high mountains appear, - with glaciers.
At Menzen we passed through a tunnel 15 minutes long, and at Pelteam there are many small glaciers on high mountains. The region and about Landeck is very rugged and picturesque, and patches of snow appear all over the higher mountains. Fine "fans" of gravel and boulders appear at the mouths of steep canons beyond Landeck. All along these mountains the trees are mostly scrubby and scant. There are many

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precipitous cliffs, and the slopes, mostly very steep, are rocky.
It is a wild picturesque region, much more nearly in a natural state than any part of Switzerland. It is said that there are chamois in these mountains.
At Winzel we saw a freight train containing about 30 Serbs and 60 or 90 Russians, - (the crowd reported many more, but the guard said there are 28 Serbians!), - men not captured in war, but picked up. The cars of a transport train were marked up in the outside with chalk, - caricatures, etc., appearing. One showed King Peter (of Servia) hung on gallows.
Shortly before this we had a narrow escape from a collision with a fast express at a crossing. It is said the trains stopped only about a meter apart!
There is some enthusiasm for war and