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the day after Count Tramp’s deposition, only 
twenty or thirty old fowling pieces, most of them 
useless, and a few swords and pistols had been 
found, the number of those engaged was necessarily 
restricted to eight men, who, dressed in green uni¬ 
forms, armed with swords and pistols, and mounted 
on good ponies, scoured the country in various di¬ 
rections, intimidating the Danes, and making 
themselves highly useful to the new governor in se¬ 
curing the goods and property that were to be con¬ 
fiscated. As a farther act of authority, and to show 
the clemency intended to be pursued, four prisoners 
confined in the Tught-huus , or house of correc¬ 
tion, one of the most considerable buildings be¬ 
longing to the town, were released, and the place 
itself converted into barracks for the soldiers. 
Some of the troop were soon employed in seizing 
the persons of two of the civil officers, the Land- 
fogued, Mr. Frydensberg, and Assessor Einersen*, 
who were kept in confinement, the former for 
one night, the latter for eight or ten days, both 
upon a charge of being at the head of a conspi¬ 
racy to raise a number of men, who were, after 
securing the English in the town, to have attacked 
the Margaret and Anne and made prisoners of 
her crew. The shops and warehouses in Reikevig 
belonging to Danes not resident in Iceland were 
* See journal, page 72, for a farther account of this 
transaction. 
