II Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 



Hansen we engaged a guide to take us to 

 Muonioniska on Saturday, and also made 

 arrangements for Bob to go out shooting to- 

 morrow. In the evening we tried to get leave 

 to shoot each a pair of Eider Ducks, but failed 

 to get it. We also went to see a Captain 

 Schlosshauer on his steamer " Glenmore," 

 lying in the harbour. He is going in July to 

 the Jenesei to trade, and coming back by sledge 

 through Petersburg. He is a dear old gentle- 

 man who has travelled a lot, and been long 

 in Encrjand, and I should dearly like to go 

 with iiim in July, but 1 am afraid that is only a 

 dream. We are staying at the Grand Hotel 

 here, which is fairly comfortable, but no one 

 speaks English, anJ we can't speak Norse. 

 Six kr. a day each. 



^pril yth. — Bob went out shooting to-day in 

 the fiord north of the town, and got one Eider 

 Drake and two Ducks, two King Eider Drakes, 

 and a Raven. After a lot of trouble and 

 talking 1 got the Chief of Police here to give 

 him leave to kill two pair of Eiders. They are 

 protected by law. Bob shot some Long-tailed 

 Ducks but failed to pick them up; he also had 

 a shot at sume Black Guillemot. He says 

 he saw three White Falcons which rose 

 about 80 yards in front of him ; but the snow 



