94 FROM ENGLAND TO ICELAND. hour each, the stages referred to being the Bruara, Estaydalr, and Laugerdal; and on the fourth day from 12.30 p.m. until midnight, with two si oppages of about three-quarters of an hour each. We have therefore been actually in the saddle altogether in the course of the four days for upwards of forty hours out of eighty-five, and have had about fifteen hours’ broken sleep during that period. At noon on the morning after our return from the interior we sail from Reykjavik for Akureyri, but before we leave the Island Hotel are intro- duced to Mr Jonsson, a leading merchant. He is a nephew of Sugersson, the Liberator of Iceland, a man who holds a high place in the hearts of his grateful countrymen as the patriot to those untiring efforts and powerful eloquence the granting of Home Rule in 1874 is universally attributed. Mr Jonsson is himself a well-known political speaker, and is the leader of the young Iceland party. He informs me that the Danes do not asso- ciate with the Icelanders, regarding themselves as a superior race, and consequently holding themselves aloof from intercourse with those of their fellow- subjects who are natives of the country in which they have made their homes. He says that so strong is this feeling that even on board ship Danes and Icelanders, although travelling together, and free subjects of the same Power, do not frater- nise as other people do. On this point, however, there is a difference of opinion among Icelanders, some of whom speak much more kindly of their Danish compatriots. Mr Jonsson tells me that he has a small farm outside Reykjavik—bought for one thousand kroner (£56 5s),—which supports two cows that would cost him two hundred kroner (£11 5s.) per annum

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