The monastery of Petschenga

PETSCHENGA MONASTERY.
BY J. A. FRIIS, Professor in the University of Christiania. Translated by Hill Repp.
LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1896.
TO THE PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY OF CARR ELLISON, OF HEDGELEY, IN THE COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, THE FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS OF MY LATE PARENTS, AND OF THEIR CHILDREN, THIS TRANSLATION IS LOVINGLY AND GRATEFULLY DEDICATED.
To Professor Friis, of Christiania, who very kindly gave me permission to publish a translation of this book, and to T. M. Fallow, Esq., M.A., of Coatham House, Coatham, who has assisted me in the translation, I offer my sincere thanks.
HILL REPP.
Redcar, April, 1896 .
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No sportsman has been to these parts. The hares skip about, and are as tame as if they were in the Garden of Eden. The hills and dales have never echoed to the hare-hunters’ halloo, to the baying of hounds in full cry to the sound of a gun, or to the death-shriek of the quarry.
‘A sheep,’ said the Lapp; ‘that isn’t a sheep, it is a jenesiä; that is to say, a hare.’
‘Well,’ I thought, ‘what a scrimmage, what an awful scrimmage there would be if one were suddenly to let loose in this place a couple of spirited Christiania harriers!’ At any time of the year, hares are to be found in almost incredible numbers, and at eleven o’clock at night, when all is calm and quiet, and the sun is still above the horizon, they may be seen coming out of their hiding-places, and feeding and playing about.