100 TRAVELS OF A NATURALIST 



of a Norsk mile from here. We made a note to write 

 to Ole Lysne to communicate with this lad concern- 

 ing eggs next year. I also saw a Dipper on the 

 Hog Elv. 



We left Skoien with regret about seven o'clock* for 

 Mostad or Mustad. * Lars ' (as we have named the Bjerg- 

 ulf) was put in a roomy box lashed to the top of Alston's 

 portmanteau. He did not seem, however, to enjoy cariol- 

 ing — indeed, he was anything but ' meget bequemt' (very 

 comfortable). We are to feed him on raw meat three or 

 four times a day. 



Iver, our boy, was ' ikke bequemt ogsaa,' as he had to 

 sit perched on high, on top of the box of skins etc., 

 which was lashed on top of my portmanteau. 



We arrived at Mustad about half-past nine o'clock. 



July ^9. 



Wednesday, the 19th of July — a very hot day — we left 

 Mustad about seven o'clock, and arrived at Gjovik about 

 8.30. I occupied the time to the starting of the steamer 

 at 10.80 by writing up my journal. 



On board the steamer on the Miosen, a couple of 

 Englishmen (one of them a Lord), were returning from 

 their Salmon river, north of Throndheim, dissatisfied with 

 their sport, saying it was such a bad season. Yet they 

 had killed 140 Salmon in one month. They came on 

 to Christiania in our railway carriage. They did not 

 admire the scenery at all, and said it was not worth 

 the trouble and discomfort of the travelling. We 

 wondered how his lordship would like living in a Soeter ! 



We also came across on the steamer an American — 

 a Southerner — a 'rum old chap,' who had been all over 

 the world, and is going to the North Cape before return- 

 ing via China and Japan. He has been all through 



"* Somebody's watch gone mad. 



