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Updated: May 6, 2025
From the day on which I shipped him an entire stranger until this eve of our separation as friends, through scenes of occasional discomfort, and circumstances which might sometimes have tried both temper and spirits shut up as we were for four months in the necessarily close communion of life on board a vessel of eighty tons, there has never been the shadow of a cloud between us; henceforth, the words "an Icelander" can convey no cold or ungenial associations to my ears, and however much my imagination has hitherto delighted in the past history of that singular island, its Present will always claim a deeper and warmer interest from me, for Sigurdr's sake.
I was never so completely taken by surprise; Sigurdr's purposely vague description of our halting-place was accounted for. We had reached the famous Almanna Gja.
If I give you anything like a connected account of what passed, you must thank Sigurdr's more solid temperament; for the Doctor looked quite foolish when I asked him tried to feel my pulse could not find it and then wrote the following prescription, which I believe to be nothing more than an invoice of the number of bottles he himself disposed of.
Guess then my relief when the bloody body of a ptarmigan driven by so point blank a discharge a couple of feet into the snow was triumphantly dragged forth by instalments from the sepulchre which it had received contemporaneously with its death wound, and thus happily accounted for Sigurdr's extraordinary proceeding.
Thanks to Sigurdr's popularity among his countrymen, by the second day after our arrival we found ourselves no longer in a strange land. With a frank energetic cordiality that quite took one by surprise, the gentlemen of the place at once welcomed us to their firesides, and made us feel that we could give them no greater pleasure than by claiming their hospitality.
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