THE INN-YARD AT GRIP

"THERE IS NAUGHT OF THE PRETENTIOUS ABOUT THE HOTEL D'ANGLETERRE,"

PIC DE LA PIQUE, AND PATH TO THE PORT DE VÉNASQUE

THE EVENING FÊTE AT BIGORRE


MAP.

RELIEF-MAP OF THE CENTRAL PYRENEES.






CHAPTER I.

IN PERSPECTIVE.

"In fortune's empire blindly thus we go;
We wander after pathless destiny,
Whose dark resorts since prudence cannot know,
In vain it would provide for what shall be."


A trip to the Pyrenees is not in the Grand Tour. It is not even in any