A Visit to Lonely Iceland 



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Great Can\-on of the Jokulsa 

 Ponies Fording the Thjorsa 



3'ears ago. The same occupations, the 

 same pleasures, the same dangers, make 

 up the life of a simple, sincere, and hos- 

 pitable people. In a country so isolated 

 from the world, equally apart from its 

 commercialism and its politics, there has 

 indeed been little chance for change. The 

 traveler who visits this country, especially 



those parts of it which lie remote from 

 its semi-Danish capital, cannot but find 

 refreshing the unsuspicious and open- 

 hearted candor of its inhabitants. Those 

 who travel across the island have the 

 better opportunity of observing this, for 

 every man's house is open to the traveler 

 at whatever point he may choose to stop. 



