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Henry Seebohm gives me work Visit to Western America 

 Cramming at "James's " Join the Seaforth Highlanders 

 Colonel Cumberland Visit to the Pamirs prohibited 

 Game Birds and Shooting Sketches a success Leave the 

 Army and go to South Africa Variety the spice of life 

 The profits of scientific literature. 



CHAPTER III 



TRAVELS IN ICELAND, 1889 50 



The Dock Strike Captain Brown A curious voyage 

 Reach Iceland Voyage round the North coast 

 Thorgrimmer Gudmansen Emigrants Fine scenery 

 A foreign " sportsman " Reach Akuyreri Bird life 

 Iceland ponies Their endurance Start for Myvatn 

 Godafoss The Whimbrel The big trout of the Skalfandi 

 Laxa A plague of flies Wonderful fishing The Harle- 

 quin Duck Abundance of ducks Reach Myvatn. 



CHAPTER IV 



TRAVELS IN ICELAND, 1889 ...... 70 



The Icelanders A well-educated people Early history 

 Now deserting the island for America Love of the 

 ancient sagas Difficulties with the owners of the farm 

 Tent life Flies attack the ponies An ornithologist's 

 paradise Predatory habits of Skuas Falcon and Sea- 

 Eagle Wild Reindeer Two fine bucks seen Dettifoss 

 the magnificent Children eating flies Tameness of the 

 Red-necked Phalarope The ponies run away The dan- 

 gers of river-crossing The Fiskivatn Fine sport Kill 

 a ten-pounder on the fly Stalk two Wild Swans The 

 caves of Kalmanstunga Get amongst quicksands A bad 

 crossing Shoot two Black-Tailed Godwits The Sorg and 

 its fish A fine basket of char Snowy Owl hunting fish 

 by day Travel in Iceland Leave for the Faroes The 

 Faroese and their mode of life Herr Muller No roads 

 The national dance Return to Scotland. 



CHAPTER V 



ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN .... 104 



My father and his tastes Hia love of music and bright 

 people Gladstone Ignorance of Nature amongst poets 

 Kipling an exception Theodore Roosevelt His early 

 life and ambitions Hia wonderful memory First meeting 

 with Roosevelt As a naturalist Sometimes dogmatic 

 Hia versatility Efforts to raise a Volunteer Corps in the 

 Great War President Wilson's inconsistency An un- 

 lucky thirteen dinner Psychic Force Visit to a medium 



