xvi CONTENTS. 



LETTER VI. 



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REYKJAVIK — LATIN CONVERSATION — I BECOME THE PROPRIETOR 

 OF TWENTY-SIX HORSES — EIDER DUCKS — BESSESTAD — SNORRO 

 STURLESON — THE OLD GREENLAND COLONY — FINLAND — A 

 GENOESE SKIPPER IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY — AN ICE- 

 LANDIC DINNER — SKOAL — AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH IN LATIN 

 — WINGED RABBITS — DUCROW — START OF THE BAGGAGE- 

 TRAIN 21 



LETTER VII. 



KISSES — WILSON ON HORSEBACK — A LAVA PLATEAU — THING- 

 VALLA — ALMANNAGIA — RABNAGIA — OUR TENT — THE SHIVERED 

 PLAIN — WITCH-DROWNING — A PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE, A.D. 

 IOOO — THANGBRAND THE MISSIONARY — A GERMAN GNAT- 

 CATCHER — THE MYSTICAL MOUNTAINS — SIR OLAF — HECKLA — 

 SKAPTA JOKUL — THE FIRE DELUGE OF 1 783 — WE REACH THE 

 GEYSIR — STROKR — FITZ's BONNE FORTUNE — MORE KISSES — 

 AN ERUPTION— PRINCE NAPOLEON — RETURN — TRADE — POPU- 

 LATION — A MUTINY — THE " REINE HORTENSE "— THE SEVEN 

 DUTCHMEN — A BALL — LOW DRESSES — NORTHWARD HO ! -45 



LETTER VIII. 



START FROM REYKJAVIK— SNAEFELL — THE LADY OF FRODA— A 

 BERSERK TRAGEDY — THE CHAMPION OF BREIDAVIK — ONUNDER 

 FIORD — THE LAST NIGHT — CROSSING THE ARCTIC CIRCLE — 

 FETE ON BOARD THE " REINE HORTENSE " — LE PERE ARCTIQUE 

 — WE FALL IN WITH THE ICE — THE " SAXON " DISAPPEARS 

 — MIST — A PARTING IN A LONELY SPOT — JAN MAYEN — MOUNT 

 BEERENBERG — AN UNPLEASANT POSITION — SHIFT OF WIND 

 AND EXTRICATION — "TO NORROWAY OVER THE FAEM" — A 

 NASTY COAST — HAMMERFEST IOI 



LETTER IX. 



EXTRACT FROM THE " MONITEUR " OF THE 3IST JULY . . I4O 



LETTER X. 



BUCOLICS — THE GOAT — MAID MARIAN — A LAPP LADY — LAPP 

 LOVE-MAKING — THE SEA-HORSEMAN — THE GULF STREAM — 

 ARCTIC CURRENTS — A DINGY EXPEDITION — A SCHOOL OF PERI- 

 PATETIC FISHES — ALTEN — THE CHATELAINE OF KAAFIORD — 

 STILL NORTHWARD HO ! 1 49 



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