Our Festivities. 25 down of which are made those stuffy, fluffy, soft, slippery coverings which always fall off a German bed when an Englishman tries to sleep in it. I do not at all like eiderdown myself, but it might be very well to have an eider duck farm in Iceland, with 2,500 ducks, and feathers at 12s. a pound. We were at first taken up by Thora to the proprietor’s house, where we immediately went to work and bought all the silver ornaments. The Icelanders were, without exception, very nice, but they seemed to like English gold. Why the ornaments were there, displayed before us on a large piano, I could not understand. But there they were, and we bought them instantly. The house seemed to be an excellent, large, old-fashioned grange, round which there were many farm outbuildings. At the back of the house was the drying-ground for the eider feathers, which seemed to be the main produce of the estate. The whole island belonged to the proprietor, who welcomed us at the house, and he took us out to show us his birds. One we found seated on her nest, made of her own feathers. The maternal victim plucks the down from her breast and makes her intended nursery. Then the down is taken away, and she does it again. A second time the robbery is committed, and she makes a third nest. Beyond that she will not go. If pillaged again she abandons her intentions in despair. The third nest is therefore left, and the young birds are reared. But when she has taken out her young ones, there is a third crop to be garnered, as good as ever. Our lunch was spread for us in a most picturesque spot, at which we were joined by the proprietor and his son, a young boy, who had delighted us by his knowledge and skill as to the birds. It was here that Thora made herself so divine that our Wilson seemed altogether to succumb to her attractions. Will he or will he not return to Iceland ? Should he do so, and should he succeed, no doubt he will go into orders,—that being the fitting condition for the son-in- law of a bishop. If so we cannot doubt but that he will rise to high ecclesiastical distinction in the island. We hurried back from our lunch that we might prepare ourselves for the grand E

(1) Band
(2) Band
(3) Saurblað
(4) Saurblað
(5) Saurblað
(6) Saurblað
(7) Blaðsíða [1]
(8) Blaðsíða [2]
(9) Mynd
(10) Mynd
(11) Blaðsíða [3]
(12) Blaðsíða [4]
(13) Blaðsíða [5]
(14) Blaðsíða [6]
(15) Blaðsíða 1
(16) Blaðsíða 2
(17) Mynd
(18) Mynd
(19) Mynd
(20) Mynd
(21) Blaðsíða 3
(22) Blaðsíða 4
(23) Mynd
(24) Mynd
(25) Mynd
(26) Mynd
(27) Blaðsíða 5
(28) Blaðsíða 6
(29) Blaðsíða 7
(30) Blaðsíða 8
(31) Blaðsíða 9
(32) Blaðsíða 10
(33) Blaðsíða 11
(34) Blaðsíða 12
(35) Mynd
(36) Mynd
(37) Blaðsíða 13
(38) Blaðsíða 14
(39) Blaðsíða 15
(40) Blaðsíða 16
(41) Blaðsíða 17
(42) Blaðsíða 18
(43) Blaðsíða 19
(44) Blaðsíða 20
(45) Blaðsíða 21
(46) Blaðsíða 22
(47) Blaðsíða 23
(48) Blaðsíða 24
(49) Blaðsíða 25
(50) Blaðsíða 26
(51) Mynd
(52) Mynd
(53) Mynd
(54) Mynd
(55) Blaðsíða 27
(56) Blaðsíða 28
(57) Mynd
(58) Mynd
(59) Blaðsíða 29
(60) Blaðsíða 30
(61) Mynd
(62) Mynd
(63) Blaðsíða 31
(64) Blaðsíða 32
(65) Mynd
(66) Mynd
(67) Blaðsíða 33
(68) Blaðsíða 34
(69) Mynd
(70) Mynd
(71) Mynd
(72) Mynd
(73) Blaðsíða 35
(74) Blaðsíða 36
(75) Blaðsíða 37
(76) Blaðsíða 38
(77) Mynd
(78) Mynd
(79) Blaðsíða 39
(80) Blaðsíða 40
(81) Mynd
(82) Mynd
(83) Blaðsíða 41
(84) Blaðsíða 42
(85) Mynd
(86) Mynd
(87) Mynd
(88) Mynd
(89) Blaðsíða 43
(90) Blaðsíða 44
(91) Blaðsíða 45
(92) Blaðsíða 46
(93) Saurblað
(94) Saurblað
(95) Saurblað
(96) Saurblað
(97) Band
(98) Band
(99) Kjölur
(100) Framsnið
(101) Kvarði
(102) Litaspjald