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and from old Alba to Lochlin, as described in the tales of the 

 Ossianic times friendly visits for feastings and marriages, 

 and more often on bloody forays. 



I wonder if the gentle ancestors of this little smuke pige 

 that waits at our table formed one of the attractions of these 

 round tours by our fathers. How delighted she was to stand 

 for a few minutes and to have her portrait presented to her. 

 On the previous page there is a fountain-pen ink jotting 

 of what I remember of the original. Is she not a familiar 

 type ? We might meet her in Kent or Caithness. 



I forgot to say we made arrangements, before we left 

 Tromso, about our Port and Starboard bears. The Port bear 

 goes to Spain, and Hamilton and I take Starboard to Edin- 

 burgh, to present him, between us, to our new Scottish 



Zoological Park, which promises to be the best in the world, 

 and of which this writer had the honour of being first 

 Honorary Treasurer ! We will hand it over with the greatest 

 pleasure, and then modestly withdraw ; for the more you 

 know of these two bears, the more you become of a retiring 

 nature. I think we must have our Lord Provost to grace 

 the ceremony of its presentation to the Park. The Right 

 Honourable the Lord Provost, in his scarlet and ermine, and 

 all the bailies, in reds and purples of various tints, what a 

 grand spectacular effect ! (Our company, we hope, would be 

 excused.) And the Lord Lyon King-at-Arms we would have 

 to come too, for colour effect, vermilion and gold, in his 



