These men are, however, so much accustomed to contingencies of this kind that they take little account of them.

My guide would quietly repair to the next spring and cleanse his clothes from mud.

As I was covered with it to above the ankles, I thought it best to follow his example.
For excursions like these it is best to come provided with a few boards, five or six feet in length, with which to cover the most dangerous places.
At nine o'clock in the evening, but yet in the full glare of the sun, we arrived at Krisuvik.

I now took time to look at this place, which I found to consist of a small church and a few miserable huts.
I crept into one of these dens; it was so dark that a considerable time elapsed before I could distinguish objects, the light was only admitted through a very small aperture.

I found in this hut a few persons who were suffering from the eruption called "lepra," a disease but too commonly met with in Iceland.