 ... where a subsistence is to be picked up ; they even run loose in unkempt groups in the very streets of the capital. One of Miss Oswald's first expeditions from Reykjavik was to inspect a herd of them gathered for exportation by the steamer which had...  By Fell and Fjord: Or, Scenes and Studies in Iceland - Page 15by Elizabeth Jane Oswald - 1882 - 282 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1882 - 870 pages
...for exportation by the steamer which had landed her : — "A splendid sunset lighted the Faxnfjord and surrounding hills, and the brown stony waste over...realised for the first time in the north that it was past midnight, broad ' daylight,' but hushed and still ; the little islets in the neighbouring sea... | |
 | American literature - 1882 - 884 pages
...Reykjavik was to inspect a herd of them gathered for exportation by the steamer which had landed her : "A splendid sunset lighted the Faxafjord and surrounding...picturesque. Then by our watches rather than the sky, we realized for the first time in the north that it was past midnight, broad 'daylight,' but hushed and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1882 - 920 pages
...Reykjavik was to inspect a herd of them gathered for exportation by the steamer which had landed her : " A splendid sunset lighted the Faxafjord and surrounding...chasing and driving the ponies, who, with their tumbling bog-manes and wild heads, neighing, kicking, and scouring here and there, were wonderfully picturesque.... | |
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