158 Summer Travelling in Iceland. despair, they held a council as to what had better be done, and on a young man volunteering to join the robbers as a spy, for the purpose of finding out the exact place where they lived, his offer was accepted, and he started off for Surts- hellir. Some of the band soon saw him, and brought him as a prisoner into their hiding-place, and were going to kill him; but, on his declaring himself to be an outlaw, and ready to join their band, they spared his life, but made him a servant, and watched him very closely; thus he was pre- vented from communicating with his friends, and, worse still, they actually made him join them in their forays on his rela- tions’ cattle and sheep. This went on for some time, but the spy had noticed, that when the band was returning to the caves with their spoils, they always slept in a secluded nook in a valley, and he determined to feign sickness just before they were going to make a raid, so that he might be left behind, when he hoped to escape, and bring the farmers to where they were sleeping, and so capture or kill them all. But the chief of the band, suspecting something of the kind, gave him such a beating that he could hardly move, and then left him in charge of the two women, telling them to kill him if he left the cave. For some time he was so closely watched that escape was out of the question, but after a time, the women, seeing that he was so badly hurt that he could scarcely crawl, left him, and he, seizing the opportunity to effect his liberty, dragged himself to the entrance of the cave, and finding an old horse grazing close by, managed to get on its back, and rode off to the nearest farm. The people, who thought that he had long been dead, were much surprised to see him, but, on hearing his tale, the neighbourhood was soon aroused, and all the farmers arming themselves, set out for the place where the spy told them they would find the robbers sleeping. There they were, sure enough; but so frightened of them were they, that they hesitated to attack

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