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At about 2 p.m. we had a most luxm-ioiis dinner of 

 Ole's cooking — soup with tinned vegetables in it, Teal and 

 Golden Plover done to a turn, and pancake of Scoter's eggs. 



After dinner we started to go to a large lake about 

 three miles down the valley, but at Lars Larsen's house 

 we heard that there were no boats upon this end of it, 

 the Soeter people having left for a time. We sent Trond 

 down to inquire of those who remained when they ex- 

 pected them back. 



Meanwhile Ole went after Bluethroats, and Alston and 

 I with the stick-gun after Wagtails. We fired at least a 

 dozen shots, but could 7io^ kill, the trigger being very stiff. 

 We saw lots of Whinchats and some Eedpolls. 



We came in at last, and Ole soon after. He had been 

 more successful, and produced a fine ^ Bluethroat and — 

 hurrah ! — a Great Snipe. The latter had risen from a 

 dry place in an open part of the birch-wood, but he could 

 find no nest. In the evening Ole showed us the place, 

 and we hunted high and low through a whole series of 

 likely-looking marshes which lie among the birch-woods. It 

 was getting late, and we were returning to the house, when 

 Trond flushed a bird. From his description it was in all 

 probability a Great Snipe. It was too dark for us to see 

 it as it flew away low along the ground. Again in vain 

 we searched, but as it is close to the house we soon 

 determined on leaving the spot for the present. 



Old Lars Larsen says there are lots of Lynxes and 

 Gluttons about here. Lemmings are here called ' Lom- 

 hund ' {i.e., pocket-dog), which is probably the original 

 form of the word. 



Trond came back and reported that there is an old 

 boat, though not a very good one, at the lake. Also that 

 an old woman knew of a nest of some sort of duck. 



To-night Keating was — as before — perfectly effective, 

 but through the day the mosquitoes, which have appeared 



