Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
LEITH & ICELAND STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY’S
First Class Screw Steamship
“CAMOENS,”
1264 Tons Register. 170 H.P.,

OR other First-Class Steamer, Sails regularly
between GRANTON and ICELAND =during the Season=,
(unless prevented by unforeseen circumstances)
carrying Mails and Passengers. The “CAMOENS” is a
full-powered, fast Steamer, with superior Passenger
accommodation; has spacious Saloon, Ladies’ Cabin,
well ventilated State-rooms, and Smoke-room.

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Carries full staff of Stewards, & Stewardess.

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FARES:—First Cabin, £5; Return, £8. Second
Cabin, £3; Return, £5.

Separate State-rooms may be had by special agreement.

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For Time Bills, Cabin Plan, &c., apply to

R. & D. SLIMON, LEITH.

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Crown 8vo. 180 pages, cloth, limp.

GUIDE TO ICELAND.

A useful handbook for Travellers and Sportsmen,
with a large Map showing every recorded site of
volcanic activity, Places of Interest, Salmon
Rivers, Reindeer Tracts, Farms where night quarters
are obtainable, Routes, &c., by W. G. LOCK, F.R.G.S.
Sent post free, on receipt of P.O. for 5s.

R. & D. SLIMON, LEITH.

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THE MIDNIGHT SUN

AS SEEN FROM THE NORTH OF ICELAND.

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Extract from the Notes of an Iceland Tourist.

On board S. S. “Camoens.”

The entire day had been lovely. Hardly any wind was blowing, and the few clouds, that in the morning had given some relief to the landscape before us, had melted away with the declining sun. We were all on deck that night, to watch when the sun would set. That there would be no visible difference in the daylight, we knew from the experience of the last two days; but as we were now at the highest latitude that we could reach (66 deg. 40 sec.), some eight miles inside the Arctic circle, there was a good deal of hope that the sun might perhaps not set at all. Deeper and deeper it sank, assuming a fiery red colour, and painting the snow-covered mountains with the most delicate touches of pink and purple. However, when it came within 2 degrees of the horizon, it seemed to stop on its downward course, and before we knew of anything we heard eight bells. Here was twelve o’clock at night, and the sun right in the north a considerable distance above the water, not a cloud on the sky, not a wrinkle on the water, not a sound to disturb the exquisite picture. Was it a wonder that we could not leave the deck? As the sun slowly rose again, a quantity of light feather-clouds gathered on the northern half of the sky, which were all fringed with crimson and gold, while the sky itself ran through all the shades, from the palest yellow in the north, to the deepest purple over the island to the south of us.

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“Iceland shone with glorious lore renowned,
A northern light when all was gloom around.”

Montgomery.

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From
England
to
Iceland;

A Summer Trip to the Arctic Circle.

by

GEORGE CHARLES SIM.

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WITH FORTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS,
CHIEFLY FROM ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

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BRADFORD: HENRY GASKARTH.
LONDON: HAMILTON ADAMS AND CO.

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TO

MY FRIEND

JOHN SPEAK, ESQ.,

OF

WARM LEE HOUSE, AMBLER THORNE,

HALIFAX,

THE COMPANION OF MANY WANDERINGS

BY

THE WORLD’S WAYSIDES,

I AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBE

THIS RECORD OF

OUR EXPERIENCES IN

ICELAND.

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