Part 9

Hudson, W. H. The Naturalist in La Plata (London, 1892). Idle Days in Patagonia (London, 1893).

Humboldt, A. von. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America. Views of Nature (Trans. 1849). Cosmos (Trans. 1849-58).

Johnston, H. H. Kilima Ndjaro Expedition (1885).

Kingsley, C. At last! A Christmas in the West Indies (1889).

Lumholtz. Among Cannibals (London, 1889).

Moseley, H. N. Notes by a Naturalist on the “Challenger” (London, 1879. New Ed. 1892).

Nordenskiöld, A. E. Voyage of the “Vega” (London, 1881).

Oates, F., Ed. by C. G. Oates. Matabele Land, the Victoria Falls, a Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa (1881).

Phillipps-Wolley. Big-Game Shooting (Badminton Libr. London, 1893).

Rodway, J. In the Guiana Forest (London, 1894). British Guiana (London, 1893).

Roosevelt, Th., and G. B. Grinell. American Big-Game Hunting (Edinburgh, 1893).

Schweinfurth, G. The Heart of Africa (1878).

Seebohm, H. Siberia in Europe (London, 1880), Siberia in Asia (London, 1882).

Selous, F. C. A Hunter’s Wanderings (1881). Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa (London, 1893).

Sibree, Rev. J. The Great African Island (1879).

Solymos, B. (B. E. Falkenberg). Desert Life (London, 1880).

Stanley, H. M. How I Found Livingstone (1872, New Ed. 1885). The Congo (1885). Through the Dark Continent (1890). In Darkest Africa (1890).

Swayne, H. G. C. Seventeen Trips through Somaliland (London, 1895).

Tennent, J. E. Natural History of Ceylon (London, 1861).

Thomson, Wyville. The Depths of the Sea (London, 1873). Narrative of the Voyage of the “Challenger” (1885). And, in this connection, see S. J. Hickson. Fauna of the Deep Sea (London, 1894).

Tristram, H. B. The Land of Israel (1876). The Land of Moab (1873). The Great Sahara (1860).

Wallace, A. R. Malay Archipelago (London 1869). Tropical Nature (1878). Island Life (1880). Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1889).

Waterton, Ch. Wanderings in South America (Ed. by J. G. Wood, 1878).

Woodford, C. M. Naturalist among the Head-hunters (London, 1890).

FROM

NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR.

THE BIRD-BERGS OF LAPLAND.

“When the Creator of the worlds had made the earth, best loved of all, and was rejoicing in His perfect work, the devil was seized with a desire to bring it all to nought. Not yet banished from heaven, he lived among the archangels in the abodes of the blessed. Up to the seventh heaven he flew, and, seizing a great stone, hurled it with might down on the earth exulting in the beauty of its youth. But the Creator saw the ruthless deed, and sent one of His archangels to avert the evil. The angel flew even more swiftly than the stone to the earth beneath, and succeeded in saving the land. The huge stone plunged thundering into the sea, and hissing waves flooded all the shores for many a mile. The fall shattered the crust of the stone, and thousands of splinters sank on either side, some disappearing into the depths, and some rising above the surface, bare and bleak like the rock itself. Then God took pity, and in His infinite goodness resolved to clothe even this naked rock with life. But the fruitful soil was all but exhausted in His hand; there remained scarce enough to lay a little here and there upon the stone.”