The town. 
Country 
houses, cha- neral good, In all of them the traveller 
racter, and 
manners of 
the people 
swing far enough, he lets down 
om in a boat below, who swing him, 
as far as is necessary to enable him to gai a safe place 
to stand upon. Betis ing eon to he wk of 
i i uently in 
these people resort for procuring food, 
rot agg a ‘pueerly net in caverns which 
abound on the coasts, m great numbers ; but are 
either not so numerous now, or there is less in 
ment for their capture. 
Thorshayn, the principal place } 
tuate on the east side of Stromoe; the houses being 
built on a narrow tongue of land jutting out into the 
sea. Two small creeks are thus formed, in either of 
which vessels may be safely moored, large iron rings 
being fixed in the rocks, on both sides, for that purpose. 
The houses are constructed of wood, and crowded to- 
gether without any regularity. The roofs are covered 
first with birch bark, brought from Norway, over which 
tarf is laid. The green colour of the tops of the 
houses assimilating with that of the soil around the 
town, renders the place almost invisible from the 
sea, ata very short distance. The house of the com- 
mandant is the best furnished, but. that of the land- 
JSoged, (who is here Ingh sheriff as well as treasurer, ) is 
the most spacious. h the exterior of the build- 
ings does not promise “at yet the rooms are generally 
neat and clean. The church is a large wooden edifice, 
covered et aa painted white. It has a small 
steeple, together its appearance is v: om 
ble. . There Banh oe lar; etna ifferent 
parts of the town, several of which are now locked up, 
on account of the almost total annihilation of e. 
The pri is a small wretched building of stone, in. 
which those convicted of crimes, such as sheep-stealing, 
are confined for several years. . They are brought out 
occasionally, however, to work when any thing parti- 
cular is required to be done. At the mouth of the 
harbour are the remains of a small but strong fort, the 
guns of which were destroyed in the year 1808. 
The houses of the farmers and of the clergy are in ge- 
ill find him- 
self hospitably received, and accommodated with an 
apartment as neat and cleén as he could desire, though 
not elegant. The hospitality of the poor Faroese 
is really remarkable; the readiness with which they 
oar to anticipate them, are, to a mind not al er 
devoid of feeling, truly affecting. In their deportment 
they are ingly 
tives, raised their moral 
timation, To religious duties they pay the most regu- 
day evenings, and on holidays, the ive them- 
iy elgg of 
selves up to merriment. In fine 
them are seen in the fields, formed into circles, moving 
round in slow cadence, (which they call dancing,) to a 
song in which sometimes | 5 or 20 voices join. sub- 
Pi oh ong io usually some atchievement of their 
a the history of faithful lovers ; and the 
in the country, is si-: 
aracter very high in his es- . 
with scarcely any intermi it rtp hte 
valent in his time, but which are now de 
however, some remnants of lity may be traced, and 
some persons are to be found,.who believe that they 
have seen the of at a distance, at the. 
moment they expired, and thus had notice of their death, 
In this respect the Faroese are not more onpraseangne 
than the common people in many districts of our own. 
country. : ; 
Barley bread is that which is 
roe, e imported in vi ; this, 
with silk or fat, constitute a in the, umn, 
when the lambs are’ htered for drying, the blood 
a lar; seploced ent ene & uantity of sea- 
bird’ boiled or su ne “4 
and Landt asserts that the stone is more frequent in 
Faroe than in other countries, The small-pox seldom. 
visits Faroe ; and, at the present time, there is not a 
native who has had the disease, except one who caught 
the infection in Denmark. Elephantiasis 
, such as 
silver coin, or some ornament, is put, and decoc« 
performed externally cxtinpation eee 
on is. of 
w ~ from. relaxation, it 
structs the 
isa auap Teaetobel at rye 
from the Danish government ; but his skill is not mu 
improved by practice... ~ 
The dress of the men of Faroe consists entirely of 
woollen stuffs, manufactured in the country. . i 
jackets, which are worn in their ordi occupations, 
deemisnee Sornate ot Seapets 
the root of tormentilla. ‘They are formed by cutting a 
iece of skin of a length and breadth, and pue~ 
ing, very neatly, be peste forthe tose eae 
ca re mY en , knitted for the pur« 
pose, and tied round the legs. e dress cap is form- 
ed like a bishop's mitre ; on ordinary rorprtuggaarn 
wear woollen caps, and sometimes caps of skin, wi 
the hairy part outermost. The men never cut their 
hair ; and to appearance seldom comb or wash it, .__ 
The women wear their hair combed backwards from 
tho frahertlnsa0 enna linen caps ee 
stiff border of coarse ising perpen ey 
cap is fastened by a coloured silk or cotton kerchief 
ie or sovkef’> 
commonly used in Fax yfanner of 
