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ffckly child with an overgrown head, peeped out from 

 under the shelter of a piece of rock ; while the Alpine 

 stitchwort occasionally showed itself, reminding me of 

 the common flower in our own hedges. In some few 

 favoured places the hill-sides would be covered with the 

 purple saxifrage, while still more rarely specimens of 

 other species of this Alpine genus of flowers were ob- 

 tained. In one sequestered nook my eye was delighted 

 with the sight of a violet and a campanula in cordial 

 juxtaposition, and the presence of a dandelion and an 

 alchemilla almost induced the idea that I was on a Scotch 

 mountain, among civilised people, rather than among 

 glaciers and Eskimos. 



The most ambitious growth here was that of beech and 

 willow bushes, eighteen or twenty inches high, having 

 stems about the thickness of a man's thumb. These are 

 gathered by the natives as firewood for the winter in the 

 Danish houses. 



As we continued our walk we came to the edge of a 

 email lake, on the far corner of which some ducks were 

 quietly floating. By a series of manoeuvres, the chief of 

 which consisted in almost breaking one's back by stoop- 

 ing, we crawled from behind one block to the next, and 

 succeeded in getting within shot, when we obtained a 

 couple of brace. 



On our way back to the ship a thick fog came on, and 

 had it not been that my companion was well acquainted 

 with the country we should have been at a loss to find 

 our way, as scarcely a landmark was visible. When we 



