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vessel was on her return voyage and laying a course for Kirkwall 
(Orkneys), he had occasion to meet and converse with a native 
of Mygganaes of the Faroes—a Captain Andresen—who was 
working his passage to Scotland in connection with his own 
business in Faroe, i.e. owner of several fishing and trading craft 
there. He was going to Scotland to endeavour to purchase a 
steam-vessel, with which he proposed to run the mails amongst 
the islands.* Amongst much other interesting matter relating 
to both the Faroes and Rockall, he made mention of a pre- 
sumably earlier occupation of Mygganaes Holm, spoken of by 
the people of the island within his [Andresen’s] recollection, 
and then of a subsequent decrease and disappearance thence, and 
an increase again later, and of their having spread to many other 
parts of the cliffs. ‘‘The Fulmars,” he said, ‘‘came in num- 
bers, but became soon afterwards rare at Mygganaes; but again 
returned and became quite abundant.” Harvie-Brown put 
Capt. Andresen’s age at about thirty-five, but now believes that 
to have been a not very accurate estimate. Andresen lived at 
his home at Mygganaes, and remembered hearing of the above 
when he was a lad of about ten years of age. Mr. Andresen 
(we quote from Harvie-Brown’s journals), ‘‘ who is certainly a 
man well worthy of credence and altogether a superior and able 
man, speaking but not reading nor writing English fluently,” 
gave Harvie-Brown these particulars, along with much other 
interesting information, apart from the subject of this paper. 
Though the above items alone may not be exact enough to prove 
a fact, yet, taken in conjunction with others, we think them 
worthy of admission here. 
The present writer had the pleasure of sailing among these 
interesting islands in the summer of 1894. The Fulmars were 
met with in fair abundance during the cruise, but more plenti- 
fully on the south coasts of the northern group than on the 
sreat walls of cliff to the west of Hide Fjord, on the north coast. 
We may here quote a few passages from Harvie-Brown’s diary 
of 1894. Relating to the north coasts, we find :— 
‘“‘Fulmars are evidently nesting on these high cliffs, as I saw 
many sailing high in air above the highest cliff-edges and along 
the cliff-faces. .. .” Again: ‘“‘Yes; Fulmars do breed on the 
* Vide ‘Trans. Royal Irish Academy.’ 
