Across the Vatna Jökull: Or, Scenes in Iceland; Being a Description of Hitherto Unknown Regions |
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... continued . In consequence of this alarm every farmer was busy preparing the wool for market ; steaming cauldrons were cleansing it from its grease , bands of sturdy Icelandic maidens were rinsing it in the clear water of the mountain ...
... continued . In consequence of this alarm every farmer was busy preparing the wool for market ; steaming cauldrons were cleansing it from its grease , bands of sturdy Icelandic maidens were rinsing it in the clear water of the mountain ...
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... continued and it would have been impossible to get many yards away from the tent without being lost . On the third day at noon the storm abated , the wind shifted due east , and the sun broke through the clouds . We all turned out , but ...
... continued and it would have been impossible to get many yards away from the tent without being lost . On the third day at noon the storm abated , the wind shifted due east , and the sun broke through the clouds . We all turned out , but ...
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... continued to prevent our obtain- ing any further view , which was very exasperating , as we might have passed within a short distance of objects of interest without being conscious of the fact . We made our first halt at 3 A.M. , and ...
... continued to prevent our obtain- ing any further view , which was very exasperating , as we might have passed within a short distance of objects of interest without being conscious of the fact . We made our first halt at 3 A.M. , and ...
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... continued to prevent our obtain- ing any further view , which was very exasperating , as we might have passed within a short distance of objects of interest without being conscious of the fact . We made our first halt at 3 A.M. , and ...
... continued to prevent our obtain- ing any further view , which was very exasperating , as we might have passed within a short distance of objects of interest without being conscious of the fact . We made our first halt at 3 A.M. , and ...
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... continued our descent over huge piles of moraine , which doubtless covered glacial ice , buttresses and points of which here and there pro- truded . Having slidden down several steep slopes of snow , which had collected in all the ...
... continued our descent over huge piles of moraine , which doubtless covered glacial ice , buttresses and points of which here and there pro- truded . Having slidden down several steep slopes of snow , which had collected in all the ...
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