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is of rare advantage to the sportsman. In the dusk 
of evening or the Lours of darkness, under the 
long shadows of the mountains, the water would 
freeze; but the cold is never unpleasant, except during 
.a northerly wind. We rest at all hours, and after 
sufficient sleep we start on whatever occupation we 
may be engaged upon. To one accustomed to a life 
of routine the change is rather trying at first, but, 
-after a time, the perfect freedom of action is delicious, 
and breakfast or dinner is served when breakfast or 
dinner may be required. Our cook, good, easy man, 
falls into the humour of the thing, and has for his 
motto “ toujours pret.” 
On the seventh, we row about eight miles from the 
schooner up the fiord to a point inside an island not in 
the chart; we land, and inspect a square wooden 
house, which, from its age and exposure to the weather, 
ought to have been by this time a respectable ruin. 
Here, owing to the atmosphere, it wore the aspect of a 
modern structure, simple in detail, twelve feet by 
eight, having a fireplace of clay and rough stones, with 
two rough wooden benches for its furniture ; a curious 
cross stands near the door, having upon it in the 
Bussian language a short inscription, the name and 
date of the last inhabitant. This, and some other 
buildings in Widdie Bay, belonged to a company of 
