A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

This portion of the conversation took place in Latin, and I therefore understood all that had b ...

"Yes, an inhabitant of the peninsula on which Sneffels is situated. He is a very shrewd and worthy man, ...

CHAPTER 8 THE EIDER-DOWN HUNTER—OFF AT LAST That evening I took a brief walk on the shore near Reykjavi ...

the greatest source of the Icelanders' wealth. In the early days of summer, the female of the eider, a pretty ...

Four horses were prepared for us, two to carry the baggage, and two to bear the important weight of myself ...

A manometer worked by compressed air, an instrument used to ascertain the upper atmospheric pressure ...

shod Alpine poles, a hatchet, a hammer, a dozen wedges, some pointed pieces of iron, and a quantity o ...

Our last evening was spent in a long conversation with M. Fridriksson, whom I liked very much—the ...

CHAPTER 9 OUR START—WE MEET WITH ADVENTURES BY THE WAY The weather was overcast but settled, when we comme ...

Hans, on taking his departure from Reykjavik, had followed the line of the sea. We took our way ...

like beggars on the highway of life. These wretched and miserable huts excited in us such pity that ...

Hvalfjord, about four miles from Reykjavik. I pointed this out to my uncle, who made a very energeti ...

insisted on his making the desired advance. This attempt was followed by a new refusal on the part of the ...

The favorable moment did not come until six o'clock in the evening. Then my uncle, myself, and guide, ...

CHAPTER 10 TRAVELING IN ICELAND It ought, one would have thought, to have been night, even in the sixt ...

in which the Icelanders ever make any fire, no matter how cold it may be. My uncle, nothing loath, has ...

This ceremony concluded to the satisfaction of all parties, we all sat down to table, that is twenty-fo ...

"A leper," explained my uncle. The very sound of such a word caused a feeling of repulsion. The horrible ...

summits of Sneffels rose to the clouds at a distance of less than five miles. The horses now advanced ...

CHAPTER 11 WE REACH MOUNT SNEFFELS—THE "REYKIR" Stapi is a town consisting of thirty huts, built on a ...