62 THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. [CHAP. lI. 
to get along some of the principal ‘streets.’ Above 
the town a little clearing forms a miniature lawn 
and garden gay with bright flowers in front of the 
Governor’s house, a pretty wooden cottage residence - 
like a villa in a suburb of one of the Scandinavian 
towns. 
Feéroe, with its wet sunless climate and precarious 
crops of barley; its turf-thatched cottages and quiet 
little churches; its glorious cliffs and headlands and 
picturesque islets, the haunt of the eider-duck and 
the puffin; and its hardy, friendly islanders, with their 
quaint, simple, semi-Icelandic semi-Danish customs, 
has been described again and again. F&roe only came 
to us as a pleasant haven of rest in the middle of our 
northern work. We paid it two visits of a week each 
in successive years, and one of the most pleasant 
memories in the minds of all of us connected with 
these expeditions will always be the cordial sympathy 
which we received from our friend M. Holten the 
Danish Governor, and his accomplished wife. M. 
Holten received us with the most friendly hospitality, 
and did everything in his power at all times to render 
us assistance and to further our views. He introduced 
us to the leading inhabitants of his dominion, and 
during the many pleasant evenings which we spent 
at his residence we heard all that we could of the 
economy of this simple little community, perhaps the 
most primitive and the most isolated in Europe. ‘To 
Governor Holten I have already had the pleasure of 
dedicating a singularly beautiful sponge-form which 
we discovered during our return voyage; and to 
Madame Holten, to whose graceful pencil I am in- 
debted for the vignettes of Féroe scenery which so 
