386 Mr. A. Newton on Mr. J. Wolley’s Researches 
with one of the two survivors of this voyage, Daniel Joensen, in 
1849*; and on July 25th, 1858, through the kind attention of 
Herr Sysselmand H. Muller, we had an interview with the other, 
a clear-headed old man, Paul Medjord by name. The accounts 
of these two witnesses differ from each other in no material 
point; but it does not seem quite certain whether the rock on 
which they landed was the Geirfugladrangr or the Geirfuglasker 
proper. Many of the above particulars, including the exact 
dates, which I believe have never before been published, were 
most obligingly furnished us from the official records by Herr 
Dahlerup, the Governor of the Fseroes, and Herr V. Einsen, the 
By-fogden of Reykjavik; but Faber, in 1822, briefly mentioned 
this massacre, and in 1839 the late Etatsraad Reinhardt t added 
some further information, which notices have been copied into 
various other works. 
In 1814, according to Faber ( loc. cit.), seven Great Auks were 
killed on a little skerry at Latrabjarg, on the north shore of 
BreidifjorSr. I do not know any other reported instance of its 
occurrence there or elsewhere in Iceland so far to the north. 
Olafsen (op. cit. p. 562) gives a lengthened description of the 
locality and the birds which frequent it, but makes no mention 
of Alca impennis. The only notice of the place I can find besides 
is in Mr. Metcalfe’s amusing little book, just published{. This 
gentleman tells a story to show that spiteful spirits dwell in some 
part of the cliff, but does not suggest that they are the ghosts 
of departed Gare-fowls. 
Faber further informs us (op. cit. p. 48) that on the 25th of 
June, 1821, he started on an excursion to the Reykjanes skerries. 
He was accompanied by a Danish merchant, a Swedish count, 
and the latter’s servant §. Of the Icelanders who were on 
* Contributions to Ornithology, 1850, [edited] by Sir William Jardine, 
Bart., &c. Edinburgh, 1850, p. 116. 
t Krdyer’s Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, i. p. 533. 
X The Oxonian in Iceland, &c. By the Rev. Frederick Metcalfe, M.A., 
&c. London, 1861, p. 260. 
§ I am not so fortunate as to possess a copy of Faber’s other work, 
f Ueber das Leben der hochnordischen Vogel ’ (Leipzig, 1825); nor have 
I seen the paper in the ( Isis ’ for 1827 (p. 633), in the latter of which I 
am informed he gives the fullest particulars of his expedition; I therefore 
