Dan Meinertzhag5n's Diary. 19 



starting down the river, we saw in a small hole 

 a pair of Mallard and put them up. We 

 scraped away the snow on the lake and found it 

 about three feet thick. 



We arrived at Peter Johann's house, at 

 about five o'clock, having accomplished about 

 another 25 miles, and made ourselves a similar 

 supper the only difference being he gave us 

 some bread and cream, and we had ham instead 

 of sausage. In the evening Johann's brother 

 brought me in a Hawk Owl which he had shot 

 on the pump just outside the cottage, for which 

 I gave him half a kr., and he seemed very 

 pleased. Our faces burned, so we had to 

 smear them with vaseline. 



I bought another fur jacket, as the one I 

 bought in Tromso was too small for me, and I 

 gave my old one to the guide who was very 

 pleased with it. He does not stand this cold 

 weather half so well as we do, for he coughs 

 and shivers and seems miserable. I only paid 

 15 kr. for this new jacket which is better and 

 bigger than the Tromso one, for which I paid 

 double. 



Twenty-one wolves were killed here by the 

 natives this winter. They hunt them down on 

 skies when the snow is thick— the wolves 

 can't move fast — and bring them to bay ; then. 



