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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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bulk. It is dark grey with very little admixture
of foreign matter. The eggs are about the size of
our domestic duck eggs, green, or greenish blue,
with black spots. The duck was so tame that she
returned to her nest after the boy replaced it on
its ledge of rock.

Scurvy grass grows very luxuriantly on this
island, around Vardö, and on its house roofs. The
moltebeer and scurvy grass have done good service
in these latitudes, where the scarcity of succulent
vegetable food renders their inhabitants so liable
to scurvy and the allied diseases that are promoted
by deficiency of potash and other alkaline salts in
the blood.

July 29th.—Leave Vardö as usual at midnight,
and arrive at Vadsö in the Varangerfjord at about
4 a.m.

This fjord is not remarkable for its scenery, but
its political relations are peculiarly interesting.
We are accustomed to regard Russian diplomacy
as wonderfully acute, far-seeing, and aggressive.
This opinion is by no means verified by the
negotiations which determined the last rectification of
the frontier line between Arctic Russia and Arctic
Norway. This line follows the Tana river from the
wild region of its sources down to Polmak, where
the river begins to widen to an estuary; so far the
line runs nearly from south to north. At Polmak

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