i6 Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 



won't be too soft crossing the mountains. 

 Grey Crows are absurdly common here, and 

 are very tame. We also saw to-day three 

 Oyster Catchers, which we shot at but missed. 

 KeniovHopio, April 12th. — We left Tromso 

 April loth, at twelve o'clock, with Isak Eriksen, 

 our guide, havin^; had our last cup of coffee 

 with Mr. and Mrs. Hansen and young Hansen ; 

 all these three have been very good indeed to 

 us during our visit to the town. We arrived 

 atSkibotten at about one o'clock in the morning. 

 We saw a large shoal of herrings just outside 

 the Lyngen Fiord, and inside a glacier, which 

 looked splendid. I had written to a Finn who 

 lived at Keniovuopio, called Peter Johann, one 

 of two brothers, about two months ago, when 

 I first planned this trip, to be at Skibotten with 

 two sledges and ponies on the loth of April, 

 and sure enough he met us on the boat. 

 Having landed our luggage, we went to have a 

 hurried sleep at the house of one Rasch. Our 

 guide woke us early on the Sunday morning 

 (nth), and we had some coffee and started 

 with our skins and sledges for Muonioniska, 

 which Johann and his partner promised to do 

 for 90 kr. (just;,{^5), a distance of 203 miles, 

 for the two of us and our guide. We sledged up 

 the river running into the fiord near Skibotten, 



