For the second time every thing is taken from her; and not until she has a third time lined the nest with her down is the eider-duck left in peace.

The down of the second, and that of the third quality especially, are much lighter than that of the first.

I also was sufficiently cruel to take a few eggs and some down out of several of the nests.

{34} I did not witness the dangerous operation of collecting this down from between the clefts of rocks and from unapproachable precipices, where people are let down, or to which they are drawn up, by ropes, at peril of their lives.

There are, however, none of these break-neck places in the neighbourhood of Reikjavik.
SALMON FISHERY.
I made another excursion to a very short distance (two miles) from Reikjavik, in the company of Herr Bernhoft and his daughter, to the Laxselv (salmon river) to witness the salmon-fishing, which takes place every week from the middle of June to the middle of August.