I could leave my baggage unguarded any where for hours, and never missed the least article, for they did not even permit their children to touch any thing.

In this point they are so conscientious, that if a peasant comes from a distance, and wishes to rest in a cottage, he never fails to knock at the door, even if it is open.

If no one calls "come in," he does not enter.

One might fearlessly sleep with open doors.
Crimes are of such rare occurrence here, that the prison of Reikjavik was changed into a dwelling-house for the chief warden many years since.
Small crimes are punished summarily, either in Reikjavik or at the seat of the Sysselmann.

Criminals of a deeper dye are sent to Copenhagen, and are sentenced and punished there.
My landlord at Reikjavik, the master-baker Bernhoft, told me that only one crime had been committed in Iceland during the thirteen years that he had resided there.