. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ieutenant governorand declared himself unable to keep order on themorrow unless he should have an assistant appoint-ed by the governor. So the assistant was appointed,and the treasury of Iceland was strained on the an-niversary day of its thousandth year by the ex-pense of two policemen instead of one ! 42 GREAT RACES OF MANKL\W
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . ieutenant governorand declared himself unable to keep order on themorrow unless he should have an assistant appoint-ed by the governor. So the assistant was appointed,and the treasury of Iceland was strained on the an-niversary day of its thousandth year by the ex-pense of two policemen instead of one ! 42 GREAT RACES OF MANKL\W. Life must, of necessity, in a countryso far north as Iceland, present a verydifferent aspect from what it bears in Primitive and lower latitudes. The in-pastoral aspect (l,J^t^,r oc -vi-p Inv^p Slid is:of life; meadows <^iusirv, aswc navesaiu, is and hay. peculiarly pastoral. Nine tenths of all the people live by theirsheepfolds and cattle. From these are crop to the next season without a secondsowing. Fuel gathering from nativesources is now prosecuted with work occupies a good part of thesummer, but the more important partsare given to the shepherds work, fishing,fowling, and particularly to making the oncoming of winter, ICELANDIC COMMERCE.—Port of Reikiavik.—Drawn by Jules Noel, after a sltelch of Nougaret. taken food, clothing, and all the otherproducts which are derived immediately,or by process, from the destruction oruse of the clean animals. The exporta-tion of values has respect to an importa-tion, the latter being chiefly wood forbuilding purposes, iron for tools, suchgrains as are grown for brewing beer,foreign cloths, fur, wine, and honey. Itis in this matter of simple barter thatthe small Icelandic commerce meadows of the country sustainthemselves from year to year. The hu-midity is such as to perpetuate the grass tool-making, and other processes thatmav be carried on within Annual festivals; doors are resort
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