XXVI MEMOIR. 



Matarciigi, alienee, embarking on the river Tornea^ he followed its 

 course across the Arctic Circle until its junction at Kengis witli the 

 Muonio, ascending the latter stream to Muonioalusta, whence a walk 

 of one Swedish or seven English miles brought him to Muoniovara, 

 a settlement of three homesteads on the Swedish side^ immediately 

 opposite the Finnish village of Muonioniska^ where he arrived on the 

 10th of June (§1831)'^. Hitherto his object had been to reach 

 Jerisjarvi, a large lake on the Finnish side of the river, which 

 had been recommended to him at Stockholm as a promising locality 

 for his operations, and this he visited accordingly at least twice ; but 

 lie found that the more immediate neighbourhood of Muonioniska 

 presented greater advantages, and here he passed the rest of the 

 egging-season, working incessantly, often for more than twenty-four 

 consecutive hours, in the vast marshes near it, until he had completely 

 exhausted the powers of his two interpreters and his troop of beaters. 

 His chief spoils were eggs of the Broad-billed Sandpiper, Jack- 

 Snipc, and Temminck's Stint, to say nothing of Tufted and some 

 other Ducks, all most carefully identified by himself; and the Snipers 

 and Stint^s probably never before taken by any oologist. About 

 the middle of July he retraced his steps, intending to return at once to 

 England ; but reaching Haparanda on the 18th he found letters which 

 made him resolve to pass the winter in Lapland, and accordingly 

 dismissing his companions, and sending his collections to my care, 

 he again ascended the river and took up his abode at Muoniovara. 



As this place became Wolley's headquarters for the rest of his 

 sojourn in Lapland, a few particulars may here be given of it. 

 Situated on the slope of a hill, and commanding a wide and extremely 

 beautiful view to the eastward over the river Muonio, and the rather 

 considerable Finnish village of Muonioniska (Plate J, p. 355, note 1), 

 stood a well-built and commodious log-house, covered with weather- 

 boarding painted of a warm red-ochre, to which the white 



* I take this date from the ' Egg-hook ' as heing more likely to he right ; hut, 

 according to a somewhat irregularly-kept journal of this time, the day of his arrival 

 was the 11th, there heing no entry for the 10th. Those who have enjoyed the 

 " sleepless summer of long light" know how hard it is, especially at first, to dis- 

 tinguish the doings of one day from those of the next, when there is no night to 

 divide them, unless noted down at the moment, and the entries in the journal from 

 the 8th to the liHh seem to have been all made at the same time. 



