The girls all cried out simultaneously, quite surprised and delighted: "Hun er quit" (she is white).

I could not refrain from laughing, and bared my arm to prove to them that I did not belong to the Arab race.
A great surprise was destined me in this house; for, as I was ransacking the Sysselmann's book-case, I found Rotteck's Universal History, a German Lexicon, and several poems and writings of German poets.
July 2d.
The way from Kalmannstunga to Thingvalla leads over nothing but lava, and the one to-day went entirely through marshes.

As soon as we had crossed one, another was before us.

Lava seemed to form the soil here, for little portions of this mineral rose like islands out of the marshes.
The country already grew more open, and we gradually lost sight of the glaciers.

The high mountains on the left seemed like hills in the distance, and the nearer ones were really hills.