CHAPTER VI. HOW WE RODE TO THE GEYSERS. REAKFAST at four,” said J. B., as we parted on Sunday night. There was a little whispering among us that five would do very well, and that absolutely punctual obedience was not to be expected from a pack of fu.ll- I grown “Mastiffs.” But J. B. rendered disobedience impossible by making such a row about the ship, bodily extracting every recusant hound from his kennel at three, that by four we were almost impatient. Mr. James Burns, who, after dancing a Scotch reel for the amusement of the Icelandic beauties on the Saturday evening, had passed the remainder of the night in packing up, was found all alive at the same duty very early on Monday morning. He had, however, been punctual in the meantime at the divine services. We had our bathe off the ladder; by four we were at breakfast; and at five we were mounting our ponies on shore. There were sixty-five ponies in all. The idea was that each “Mastiff” should have two,—one to rest the other,—that the cook and the two servants who went with us, and the five guides, should have such aid, each to his own pony, as might be necessary, and that the remainder should be laden with the provisions, tents, and baggage generally. I may here say for the advantage of future travellers in Iceland, that the ponies cost about £i per head for the journey, including the guides. As the “ Mastiffs” were forbidden to allude to money,—everything of that kind coming either direct from the clouds or from J. B.,—I perhaps am out of order in making this allusion. I did, however, hear that such was the amount paid.

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