Interesting as Twain, at least in "A Tramp Abroad" was unable to 
distinguish between the two towns.  I can't check his journal or 
notebooks, however. /The town in the valley is called Leuk or Leukerbad. 
We pointed our course toward it, down a verdant slope which was adorned 
with fringed gentians and other flowers, and presently entered the 
narrow alleys of the outskirts and waded toward the middle of the town 
through liquid "fertilizer." They ought to either pave that village or 
organize a ferry./

On 3/22/21 7:36 PM, Barbara Schmidt wrote:
> I checked the passage in Rodney’s MARK TWAIN OVERSEAS, p. 106.  Rodney does
> not mention Leukerbad.
>
> Barb
>
> On Monday, March 22, 2021, Scott Holmes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I have recently relocated my twainsgeography site to Amazon's cloud server
>> and am combing through my site for bothersome details.  For those
>> interested in such minutia, Fears' Day by Day contains this passage:
>>
>> "The pair set off with an old guide and climbed on foot up through the
>> pass, coming down a precipitous trail to the village of*Leuk***(a short
>> distance from*Leukerbad*)[Rodney 106]."
>>
>> Fears apparently got this from Robert Rodney's "Mark Twain Overseas".
>>
>> The order of villages is actually reversed.  Leukerbad is the village with
>> the baths and is found at the base of Gemmi Pass.  Leuk is the town to the
>> south of Leukerbad.
>>
>> Just thought I'd mention it... http://twainsgeography.com/con
>> tent/kandersteg-leukerbad
>>