f 23 after all the flesh has been carefully picked off, the very bones are softened and eaten. The offal is thrown to the dogs and ponies, who sometimes get also the powdered fishbones when these can be spared by the family. In some parts, herrings abound to such an extent that 180 and 200 barrels have been caught at a single draught. The shark fishery, which requires much adroitness and daring, is especially popular ; they vary in size from eignteen to twenty feet in length ; the flesh requires burying for some time before it is fit for food, but usually the liver only is used. Our in- former mentioned that when taken, this fish will yield from five to forty gallons of better cod-liver oil than the cod itself. This is an interesting fact for invalids, who are often, when they least think it, feasting on the fierce shark instead of the mild cod. We did not see a butcher’s shop in the town as “ everyone kills himself,” taking care to apportion the animal before ; but sugar-candy, their one luxury, abounds. The purchasers shovel it into bags and carry it off in quantities. It has the double advantage of being pure sugar and hard enough to resist the damp, and, as an Icelander said, “Sugar-candy don’t run away in our mouths.” Eggs are imported from France, and, being considered a great treat, are kept a long time and only used on State occasions. One traveller tells us he tried to introduce poultry into the country but without success, for the cockbird never slept for more than five minutes at a stretch without waking up in a state of nervous agitation lest it should be cockcrow, and at last, when night ceased altogether, his constitution could no longer stand the shock, and, cackling loudly, he threw himself overboard. Servants receive about £2 per annum ; men, £3 to £4, with certain allowances including two pounds of butter per week. Every man must know how to shoe a horse, and I heard that every Icelander does from the Bishop—who is the greatest and richest man in the country—downwards. The doctors are Government officials, whose practice sometimes extends a hundred miles, and when we remember that the severe winter lasts seven or eight months it seems marvellous that anyone can be found to fill such a situation. In winter, sometimes the peasants come with shovels, pick-axes, and horses

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