32 A Girl's Ride in Iceland. Icelanders enjoy this prolonged daylight during their brief summer, how painful must be the re- verse during the long winter, when they have but a few hours of daylight. We were told an amusing story of an enterpris- ing merchant from Glasgow, who, wishing to impress the Icelanders with the advantage of the electric light to cheer their long winter’s darkness, went to Reykjavik in his large steam yacht, send- ing forth a proclamation inviting the natives to come and behold this scientific wonder. It was August, and he had not taken into consideration the fact that during that month there is no night in the Island, consequently his display was totally ineffectual ! After breakfast, a boat came alongside our steamer to convey us to the town. Off we went in a high state of pardonable excitement. All past discomfort was forgotten; we were about to set our feet on that terra incognita to most Euro- peans, viz., ‘ Iceland,’ whose high mountain masses, varying in altitude from 3000 to 6800 feet, are, for the greater part of the year, covered with snow. But before we land, let me describe the boat; large, of course, or it would never be able to stand the rough waters of the fjords, which, we were told, were often so turbulent as to render any communication with ships at sea impossible. Both ends of the boat are made alike, resem- bling two bows; our boat had neither rudder

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