446 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



50"18. — Wind S.W. ; gale at 3 a.m. At 10 we were well in with 

 the east side of Fuglo, and opposite to the Sea-Lap's house, and 

 with the glass we could make out three cows — the first sign of 

 inhabited land. Directly afterwards off the east side of Spennen, 

 on our port-quarter, we saw a small boat under sail — the second 

 sign of human beings. Saw a few Kittiwakes during the day, and 

 soon after noon saw a Diver {Colymbus), or possibly a Shag, flying. 

 Half-an-hour later saw a Greater Black-backed Gull and later 

 (probably) a Herring Gull. A gale from south having gradually 

 sprung up, before which we had to keep shortening sail, we at last 

 took refuge in a little bight called Vandvaag, on the east side of 

 Vando, opposite some small houses, and we had great reason to 

 be glad we had got there, as it came on to blow harder and 

 harder. 



October 5. — Fancying the wind had moderated, we got under 

 way early, but on getting outside we found it was as strong as 

 ever. After knocking about for some time the topsail halyards 

 parted and let the sail down with a run ; shortly afterwards the 

 jib-halyards also parted, and down came that sail ; and after 

 persevering some time longer we were forced to give it up and run 

 back to our little harbour in Vandvaag, anchoring there about 

 11.30 a.m., and soon after midday we all got something to eat, 

 for the first time that day. The gale had been increasing during 

 the morning, and we only got in just in time, for by midday it 

 was blowing a hurricane ; the water was blown off the surface of 

 the sea and carried off like smoke, rising to an estimated height 

 of fifty feet. To seawards of us (east) the land was soon invisible 

 from the water carried upwards by the wind, off the sea, and on 

 that side it looked exactly as if it was raining hard, or a fog. 

 We to-day, as it is daylight, see what the houses are like, and see 

 cows and a few people, two or three of whom turn out to look at 

 us as we come in, but are soon satisfied and disappear again. As 

 we come in there is a large flock of Eiders, perhaps 100, of which 

 probably more than half are adult drakes ; another smaller party, 

 with one splendid adult drake and an immature drake ; a few 

 immature gulls — I think Herring Gulls — and Tysties, and one 

 or two Kittiwakes. It continued blowing a hurricane all day, 

 first from S.W., then getting gradually round to full W., and for 

 a short time a little N. of W. then back to W. From about G.55 

 to 7.35 p.m., or thereabouts, a most beautiful display of Aurora; 



