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Duchess of Bedford : Nine Days on Grimsey 
the prospective dinner of Puffins and Razorbills. In the 
outside larder, a construction of poles which appears in the 
photograph (text-fig. 3), was hung a supply of dried fish 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 arid are very shy when first spoken 
to, the inhabitants soon become very friendly and talkative 
when the ice is broken. 
Text-tig. 3. 
Huts on Grimsey. 
There are no dogs on the island. I gathered that they 
had been put down, owing to a fatal complaint with which 
they had been wont to infect their owners. There is ex¬ 
cellent sea-fishing. 
As the wind changed in the night and blew from the S.W. 
I was compelled to leave Grimsey after a visit of forty-eight 
hours, and went over to an anchorage in Eyjafjord (text-fig. 4). 
On a loch not far from the anchorage I saw T Scaup with 
