About 1887 Colonel Napier came to Davos bringing with him a Norwegian man-servant and a pair of Skis.

I have only a vague recollection of seeing him perform, but when Colonel Napier left Davos the same year, he gave the Skis to me to play with.

Then Tobias Branger, who was a great sportsman and kept a sports shop at Davos, imported several pairs of Skis and practised the art himself.

About this time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dobson took up the game and we spent many hours practising on the slopes behind Davos Dorf.

The Richardson brothers, who had been to Norway, came to Davos about 1893 bringing with them knowledge of the sport and soon gathered round them a keen lot of disciples.

The Davos English Ski Club was formed and from now on Ski-ing spread rapidly throughout Switzerland.

DAVOS, 5,015 feet above the sea, was one of the first places at which Winter sports began, and it still offers almost everything desired by the Ski runner.

The fact that Davos is much visited by invalids deters a great many people from going there, for fear of infection.

Davos is within very easy reach by the Rhaetische Railway of all the Parsenn runs.

There is a good Ski map showing all the runs round Davos, but the Ordnance Map should be used as well.

Invalids go there as well as to Davos, but the same precautions are taken as at Davos.

Invalids go there as well as to Davos, but the same precautions are taken as at Davos.

The longer tours, such as those over the Kesch Glacier to Bergün or Davos, are unequalled so far as I know.

Since I tried it, two or three new forms of toe binding have been put on the market, the simplest of which seems to me to be the Davos form, which is merely a strap fixed to the Ski with an iron loop at the end to fit into the hook on the boot and an ordinary Huitfeldt spring buckle to fix it firmly. (2) Solid bindings.

This was brought home to my family rather vividly, when we lived at Davos, by a shooting gallery being set up on our land in front of our house.

In old days before the railways had tunnelled through the passes we were driving over the Fluela above Davos on our way to Italy in March.

As a child at Davos I saw three bears brought in dead by hunters, and remember with pride, mixed with disgust, tasting a bear's paw.

There is one beech tree above Davos about 5,500 feet above the sea, but it has never succeeded in topping the huge boulder which shelters it from the North.

The Council represents the following clubs, which are named in the order of their foundation: The Davos Ski Club, the Ski Club of Great Britain, the Alpine Ski Club, the British Ski Association, and the Ladies' Ski Club.

The Davos murder.

The Davos murder.

The Davos murder.

The Davos murder.

The Davos murder.

DAVOS-PLATZ, a village 5105 ft. above the sea-level, in a valley of the East Grisons; a place frequented in winter by invalids suffering from chest disease, the dry air and sunshine that prevail being favourable for patients of that class.