Parry relates that when he was wintering in the Arctic regions, one of the seamen, who had been smitten with the charms of an Esquimaux lady, wished to make her a present, and knowing the taste peculiar to those regions, he gave her with all due honours a pound of candles, six to the pound! The present was so acceptable to the lady, that she eagerly devoured the lot in the presence of her wondering admirer .-- ED.
{33} An American travelling in Iceland in 1852 thus describes, in a letter to the _Boston Post_, the mode of travelling:--"All travel is on horseback.

Immense numbers of horses are raised in the country, and they are exceedingly cheap.

As for travelling on foot, even short journeys, no one ever thinks of it.

The roads are so bad for walking, and generally so good for riding that shoe-leather, to say nothing of fatigue, would cost nearly as much as horse-flesh.

Their horses are small, compact, hardy little animals, a size larger than Shetland ponies, but rarely exceeding from 12 or 13.5 hands high.