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drooping. I had before observed the same plant 
near Reikevig, and in the neighborhood of Skal- 
holt, but in neither of these places did it flourish 
so luxuriantly or abound so much as here, where, 
as just mentioned, the pastures were almost en^ 
tirely composed of it, and a number of people 
were now employed in cutting it, and making it 
into hay. Another meal of roasted meat con¬ 
cluded the feasting of the day: a thing that 
would scarcely deserve to be noticed, but for 
the sake of observing that it was the fourth 
time in the course of the twelve hours that 
I sat down to a hot roast joint of meat: first, 
when we breakfasted at Inderholme, then at the 
sysselman’s house at Leera, and now twice at 
Hvamore. Each repast, too, was preceded by a 
glass of rum, and concluded by coffee, chocolate, 
and often tea, 
Thursday, After breakfast, the Amptman and 
August 3. Xatsroed, with their two sons and 
myself, set out for Reykholt, taking with us, as 
on the preceding day, horses to relieve those 
which we first rode. These animals were even 
more spirited and more disposed to ramble than 
those we took from Inderholme, and gave for 
some time sufficient employment to the young 
Stephensens; but after we had advanced a few 
miles they became more tractable, and suffered 
