You must also carry your provisions with you, as you will be able to get but little on your route.

Plenty of milk can be had, and some fresh-water fish.

The luggage is carried in trunks that are hung on each side of the horse, on a rude frame that serves as a pack-saddle.

Under this, broad pieces of turf are placed to prevent galling the horse's back." {34} The down of the eider-duck forms a most important and valuable article of Icelandic commerce.

It is said that the weight of down procurable from each nest is about half a pound, which is reduced one-half by cleansing.