. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . ined on board the ? Artemise,^ we adjourned ateleven oclock to the beach to witness the departure of thebaggage. The ponies were all drawoi up in one long file,the head of each being tied to the tail of the one immediately 44 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [VI. before him. Additional articles were stowed away here andthere among the boxes. The last instructions were givenby Sigurdr to the guides, and everything was declared readyfor a start. With the air of an equestrian star, descend
. Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage in 1856 in the schonner yacht "Foam" to Iceland . ined on board the ? Artemise,^ we adjourned ateleven oclock to the beach to witness the departure of thebaggage. The ponies were all drawoi up in one long file,the head of each being tied to the tail of the one immediately 44 LETTERS FROM HIGH LATITUDES. [VI. before him. Additional articles were stowed away here andthere among the boxes. The last instructions were givenby Sigurdr to the guides, and everything was declared readyfor a start. With the air of an equestrian star, descendinginto the arena of Astleys Amphitheatre, the cook thenstepped forward, made me a superb bow, and was assistedinto the saddle. My little cabin-boy accompanied him asaide-de-camp. The jovial Wilson rides with us to-morrow. Unless weget his head round during the night, he will have to sit facinghis horses tail, in order to see before him. We do not seem to run any danger of falling short ofprovisions, as by all accounts there are birds enough in theinterior of the country to feed an Israelitish LETTER VII. KISSES—WILSON ON HORSEBACK—A LAVA PLATEAU—THIXGVALLA—ALMAXXAGIA—RABNAGIA—OUR TEXT—THE SHIVERED PLAIX—WITCH-DROWXIXG — A PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE, A. D. lOOO—THAXGBRAXD THE MISSIOXARY—A GERMAN GNAT-CATCHER—THEMYSTICAL MOUNTAINS—SIR OLAF—HECKLA—SKAPTA JOKUL—THEFIRE DELUGE OF 1783—WE REACH THE GEYSIR—STROKR—FITZSBOXNE FORTUXE—MORE KISSES—AN ERUPTION—PRINCE NAPO-LEON—RETURN—TRADE—POPULATION—A MUTINY—THE REINEHORTENSE — THE SEVEN DUTCHMEN—A BALL—LOW DRESSES —NORTHWARD HO ! Reykja^ik, July 7, last I have seen the famous Geysirs, of which every onehas heard so much; but I have also seen Thing\-alla, ofwhich no one has heard anything. The Geysirs are cer-tainly wonderful marvels of nature, but more wonderful,more marvellous is Thing\-alla; and if the one repay youfor crossing the Spanish Sea, it would be wo
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