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with still another bowl, after we should have 
drained this; and accordingly another actually 
came, which we were with difficulty allowed to 
refuse to empty entirely; nor could this be done, 
but by ordering our people to get the boat ready 
for our departure, when, having concluded this 
extraordinary feast * by three cups of tea each, 
we took our leave, and reached Reikevig about 
ten o’clock; but did not for some time recover 
the effects of this most involuntary intemper¬ 
ance^. At table we were waited upon by two 
females J, so exceedingly handsomely ^ dressed, 
that I concluded they were not common servants, 
* On afterwards relating the anecdote of the Stiftsampt - 
man’s dinner to Count Tramp, he assured me that he had 
partaken of a similar one himself, when he first went over 
to the island, at which time soup was served upon the 
table made from the boiling down of a whole bullock. 
+ Indeed, we were somewhat in the same predicament 
as the guest of the Kamtschatdale, of whom Krachenin- 
nikow further relates, <f II vomit pendant son repas jusqu’ 
S( a dix fois ; aussi apres un festin de cette nature, loin de 
" pouvoir manger pendant deux ou trois jours, il ne sauroit 
irieme regarder aucun aliment, sans que le coeur ne lui 
“ souleve.” 
X As I had this day, for the first time, an opportunity of 
observing carefully the dress of an Icelandic lady,, which is 
different from that of other countries, I shall avail myself 
of the present occasion of describing it at some length 5 a 
