Ride to Chillon—Castle of La Tour du Peil—Chastellar—Chillon—Attentivegendarmes—Oubliettes—Destinyof their inhabitants—Salle de Justice—Tortureroom—Eating hall with its fleurs-de-lis—The dungeons—Thebeam—The interment in the lake—Bonnivard—Hismisfortunes—His prison—The first pillarhaving its own story—Sketches on the wall made by acaptive—His escape—Drowned in the attempt twomonths before Bonnivard’s deliverance—AlexanderDumas’ name above that of Byron—The English amateur’spainting—The fat gendarme—A bad Bonnivard—Ourdetermination to inhabit Chillon—Changed bythoughts of powder—Fanny our conductress—Ludlow’shouse and tomb—Contrast between Protestantand Catholic cantons—Bulle—The bony hand holdinga crucifix—The Counts of Gruyères—Fines paid forcrimes perpetrated—The banner of Berne—Laws ofthe Simmenthal—The Bernese attacking Gruyères—CountPierre’s danger—Plague described by Boccaccio—TheFlagellans—The murdered Jews—Last of theCounts of Gruyères—Leaving Bulle—Fribourg—Battleof Morat—The lime tree—A monument of the youngmessenger—Berthhold, founder of Fribourg—Linedrawn between plebeian and noble—Bridge—Organ

Canton of Berne—Village where the Swiss troopsobtained a victory over the French force in ’98—Berne—Bearsin all forms—Their revenues diminished—Theirnew baptism—Foundation of Berne—Rodolphof Erlach—Laupen—Rodolph chosen guardianof orphans of the Count of Nidau—Murdered by hisown son-in-law—Cathedral—Monument to DukeBerthhold—His wife’s execution—Charles Louis ofErlach massacred by his own soldiers during Frenchinvasion—Treatment of Berne by the French—Thun—Privileges—Castleof Thun—The brothers—Thebanquet—The murder—The “pension”—Anacquaintance—The sketcher in haste—A Marseillesstory—Spietz—The golden manor—Adrianof Bubenberg—Hissaving Morat—His embassy—His return asa minstrel—Unterseen—Unspunnen once the propertyof the Eschenbach family—Walter of ...