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A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Chapter 9 ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT

Word Count: 2083    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

ure arrived. The day b

letters of introductio

. Picturssen, the bish

iavik. My uncle expre

pressions of b

ious baggage being safely on board the Valkyria

favourable?"

a sou'-easter. We shall pass down the

ail through the straits. In an hour the capital of Denmark seemed to sink below the distant waves, and the Valkyria was skirting t

expedition. Perhaps you would keep us company to the centre

heroic prince of Denmark. It now answers the purpose of a sumptuous lodge for the doorkeeper of t

he tower of Helsingborg, built on the Swedish coast, and the schoo

ependence. She was taking to Rejkiavik coal, household goods, earthenware, woo

he passage take?

ed, "if we don't meet a nor'-

subject to cons

t be uneasy, we shall get

er doubled the Skaw a

passed the Skager Rack

d entered th

eterhead, and the Valkyria turned her lead towards the F

the Faroes only with some difficulty. On the 8th the captain made out Myganness, the southernmost of these

les of the sea pretty well; my uncle, to his own intense di

he was obliged to put off these inquiries until his arrival, and spent all his time at full length in his cabin, of whic

us a good view of Myrdals jokul, which overhangs it. The cape is

ormous perforated rock, through which the sea dashed furiously. The Westman islets seemed to rise out of the ocean like a group of rocks in a liquid

rom coming on deck to admire these

ighted east of us the beacon on Cape Skagen, where dangerous rocks extend far away seaward. An Icelandi

pale and wretched-looking, but still full of enthusia

in the arrival of a vessel from which every one e

he schooner he dragged me forward, and pointing with outstretched finger north of the bay at a di

ll! Sn

silence, he went into the boat which awaited him. I foll

Professor was soon aware of the presence he was in. He delivered him his letters from Copenhagen, and then followed a short conversation in the Danish language, the purport of which

or, M. Finsen, whose appearance was as military, and

But M. Fridrikssen, professor of natural sciences at the school of Rejkiavik, was a delightful man, and his friendship became very precious to me. This modest philosopher spoke only Danish and Latin

his house contained, and we were soon installed in it with all our luggag

le, "we are getting on, a

!" I said,

we have nothing t

but after all, when we have gone down, w

elf about that. Come, t

brary. Perhaps there

, and I should be

there I will go into

It is not what is upon this island, but

wandered whereve

refore under no necessity to inquire the road, which exposes

other extends the vast bay of Faxa, shut in at the north by the enormous glacier of the Sn?fell, and of which the Valkyria was for the time the only occu

the merchants and traders, in wooden cabins made of red planks set horizontally; the other street, r

carpet, or some appearance of a kitchen garden, the sparse vegetables of which (potatoes, cabbages, and lettuces), would

I found the public cemetery, inclosed with a m

but compared with the town hall of Hamburg, a palace in

d out of the volcanoes by their own labour and at their own expense; in high westerly winds it was manifest t

h, with shame I confess it, I don't know a single word; after an examination I should have had to stand last of the forty scholars educated at this little college, and I s

. The Icelandic huts are made of earth and turf, and the walls slope inward; they rather resemble roofs placed on the ground. But then these roofs are meadows of comparative fertility. Than

but heavy, blond Germans with pensive eyes, conscious of being far removed from their fellow creatures, poor exiles relegated to this land of ice, poor creatures who should have been Esquimaux, since nature had condem

Scandinavian lands a 'vadmel,' a hat with a very broad brim, trousers with

ore gowns and petticoats of dark 'vadmel'; as maidens, they wore over their braided hair a little knitted bro

ridrikssen's house, where I found my

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1 Chapter 1 THE PROFESSOR AND HIS FAMILY2 Chapter 2 A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE3 Chapter 3 THE RUNIC WRITING EXERCISES THE PROFESSOR4 Chapter 4 THE ENEMY TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION5 Chapter 5 FAMINE, THEN VICTORY, FOLLOWED BY DISMAY6 Chapter 6 EXCITING DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN UNPARALLELED ENTERPRISE7 Chapter 7 A WOMAN'S COURAGE8 Chapter 8 SERIOUS PREPARATIONS FOR VERTICAL DESCENT9 Chapter 9 ICELAND! BUT WHAT NEXT 10 Chapter 10 INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH ICELANDIC SAVANTS11 Chapter 11 A GUIDE FOUND TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH12 Chapter 12 A BARREN LAND13 Chapter 13 HOSPITALITY UNDER THE ARCTIC CIRCLE14 Chapter 14 BUT ARCTICS CAN BE INHOSPITABLE, TOO15 Chapter 15 SN FELL AT LAST16 Chapter 16 BOLDLY DOWN THE CRATER17 Chapter 17 VERTICAL DESCENT18 Chapter 18 THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS19 Chapter 19 GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU20 Chapter 20 THE FIRST SIGNS OF DISTRESS21 Chapter 21 COMPASSION FUSES THE PROFESSOR'S HEART22 Chapter 22 TOTAL FAILURE OF WATER23 Chapter 23 WATER DISCOVERED24 Chapter 24 WELL SAID, OLD MOLE! CANST THOU WORK I' THE GROUND SO FAST 25 Chapter 25 DE PROFUNDIS26 Chapter 26 THE WORST PERIL OF ALL27 Chapter 27 LOST IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH28 Chapter 28 THE RESCUE IN THE WHISPERING GALLERY29 Chapter 29 THALATTA! THALATTA!30 Chapter 30 A NEW MARE INTERNUM31 Chapter 31 PREPARATIONS FOR A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY32 Chapter 32 WONDERS OF THE DEEP33 Chapter 33 A BATTLE OF MONSTERS34 Chapter 34 THE GREAT GEYSER35 Chapter 35 AN ELECTRIC STORM36 Chapter 36 CALM PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSIONS37 Chapter 37 THE LIEDENBROCK MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY38 Chapter 38 THE PROFESSOR IN HIS CHAIR AGAIN39 Chapter 39 FOREST SCENERY ILLUMINATED BY ELECTRICITY40 Chapter 40 PREPARATIONS FOR BLASTING A PASSAGE TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH41 Chapter 41 THE GREAT EXPLOSION AND THE RUSH DOWN BELOW42 Chapter 42 HEADLONG SPEED UPWARD THROUGH THE HORRORS OF DARKNESS43 Chapter 43 SHOT OUT OF A VOLCANO AT LAST!44 Chapter 44 SUNNY LANDS IN THE BLUE MEDITERRANEAN45 Chapter 45 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL