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A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth

           ButthemysterywasexplainedwhenM.Fridriksseninformedmethatthistranquilpersonagewasonlyahunteroftheeiderduck,whoseunderplumageconstitutesthechiefwealthoftheisland.Thisisthecelebratedeiderdown,anditrequiresnogreatrapidityofmovementtogetit.

           Earlyinsummerthefemale,averyprettybird,goestobuildhernestamongtherocksofthefiordswithwhichthecoastisfringed.Afterbuildingthenestshefeathersitwithdownpluckedfromherownbreast.Immediatelythehunter,orratherthetrader,comesandrobsthenest,andthefemalerecommencesherwork.Thisgoesonaslongasshehasanydownleft.Whenshehasstrippedherselfbarethemaletakeshisturntopluckhimself.Butasthecoarseandhardplumageofthemalehasnocommercialvalue,thehunterdoesnottakethetroubletorobthenestofthis;thefemalethereforelayshereggsinthespoilsofhermate,theyoungarehatched,andnextyeartheharvestbeginsagain.

           Now,astheeiderduckdoesnotselectsteepcliffsforhernest,butratherthesmoothterracedrockswhichslopetothesea,theIcelandichuntermightexercisehiscallingwithoutanyinconvenientexertion.Hewasafarmerwhowasnotobligedeithertosoworreaphisharvest,butmerelytogatheritin.

           Thisgrave,phlegmatic,andsilentindividualwascalledHansBjelke;andhecamerecommendedbyM.Fridrikssen.Hewasourfutureguide.Hismannerswereasingularcontrastwithmyuncle’s.

           Nevertheless,theysooncametounderstandeachother.Neitherlookedattheamountofthepayment:theonewasreadytoacceptwhateverwasoffered;theotherwasreadytogivewhateverwasdemanded.Neverwasbargainmorereadilyconcluded.

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