This, however, was not considered as in the least unpolite.
One of the songs was in praise of the donors of the entertainment; and, during the chorus, the ceremony of touching each other's glasses was performed.

After supper, waltzes were danced, in a style that reminded me of soldiers marching in cadence to the dead march in Saul.

Though there was no need of artificial light, a number of candles were placed in the rooms.

When the company broke up, about three o'clock, the sun was high above the horizon." {29} A man of eighty years of age is seldom seen on the island .-- _Kerguelen_.
{30} Kerguelen (writing in 1768) says: "They live during the summer principally on cod's heads.

A common family make a meal of three or four cods' heads boiled in sea-water."-- ED.
{31} This bakehouse is the only one in Iceland, and produces as good bread and biscuit as any that can be procured in Denmark.