6 Duchess of Bedford : Nine Days on Grhnsey 



the j)rospective dinner of Puffins and Uazoibills. In the 

 outside larder, a construction of poles which aj)pears in the 

 photograph (text-fig. 3), \vas hung a supply of dried fisii and 

 mutton, the odour of which accompanied me some distance 

 after leaving the house. 



Though they bolt like rabbits into their houses on the 

 approach of a stranger and are very shy Avhen first spoken 

 to, the inhabitants soon become very friendly and talkative 

 when the ice is broken. 



'J"ext-fio-. '?>. 



There are no dogs on the island. I gathered that they 

 had been put down, owing to a fatal complaint with which 

 thev had been wont to infect their owners. There is ex- 

 cellent sea-lishing. 



As the wind changed in the night and bU'W from the S.VV. 

 I was compelled to leave (ii'iniscy after a visit of foi'ty-eight 

 hours, and went over to an anchorage in Eyjaljoi'd( text-iig. J). 

 On a loch not far from the anchorage I saw Scaup with 



