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company Avitli Liulwig ; and finally Niemin Apoo (Abraham), an 

 honest but somewhat witless creature, who, being an intrex^id as well 

 as skilful boatman, frequently attended Wolley in his many river- 

 journeys and was one of the crew^ who brought the boat to meet us 

 at Kilpisjarvi in 1855, subsequently accompanying us to Haparanda. 

 For all these three Wolley had a great regard, and they were devoted 

 to him. 



Thus established at Muoniovara, during the winter he occupied 



himself partly in pursuit of the somewhat scanty stock of game 



which the surrounding forests afforded * and in unsuccessful attempts 



at bear-hunting t ; but more especially in visiting almost every house 



within a radius of many miles, learning to know the inhabitants, 



enquiring of them about the birds of the district, and engaging the 



services of the more active for the ensuing spring. Meanwhile his 



boxes of eggs arrived in England, and the reception by collectors of 



a small portion of their contents, submitted to sale at the late 



Mr. J. C. Stevens's auction-room, was very encouraging to his 



future labours : genuine eggs of several of the species already named 



among his captures, as well as of others, it had never before been in 



the power of British or probably foreign collectors to procure, and 



they were prized accordingly. Towards the spring he crossed the 



mountains with reindeer, taking the route by Mukkauoma, into 



Norway, and proceeded by sea from Tromso to Ilammerfest J, whence 



in a short time he returned with the last snow to his headquarters 



by way of Alteu and Kautokeino, near which place he successfully 



scaled a dangerous rock for a nest of the Gyrfalcon (§ 192). Arrived 



at Muoniovara, he soon afterwards had the opportunities of taking 



the eggs of the Crane, which he so vividly described in ' The Ibis ' 



for 1859 (pp. 191-198); and a few days more saw him again 



ascending the river to its parent lake, Kilpisjarvi, among the 



mountains — the point at which Norway, Sweden, and Finland meet 



* All incident of one of his excursions, made before the winter had fairly begun, 

 is given furtlier on (pp. 170-172). 



t He took part in one hunt when the bear was killed, but he had not the luck 

 to be "in at the death." 



X There he met the well-known wahus-hunter, Ilerr Andreas Beiger, and was 

 by him sorely tempted to take passage in a jayt to Spitsbergen. 



