A visit to Iceland, by way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" yacht, in the summer of 1834 / By John Barrow.
- John Barrow Jr.
- Date:
- 1835
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A visit to Iceland, by way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" yacht, in the summer of 1834 / By John Barrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Chap. VIII.] BAY OF STAPPEN. 259 ledge of it was so far useful, that it put us on our guard against placing the least confidence in him, and that we should not neglect the proper precau- tions to be taken by ourselves: indeed, we had occasion to suspect his ignorance, from the circum- stance of his endeavouring to convince us that a rock, as we all judged it to be, which had been in sight for a long while as we sailed towards the coast, was nothing more than a ship. The man however, though no pilot, had some redeeming qualities; for when, on our return to Reikiavik, we were informed that he had once saved the lives of some seamen in the most gallant manner, by ven- turing out into the middle of the bay in an open boat, in very tempestuous weather, to the great hazard of his life, we felt disposed—indeed we could not do less—than to forgive his want of skill on the present occasion. Having approached quite as near to the coast as we thought advisable or prudent, we laid to, and sent our land pilot off, for want of a better, to the shore, that he might serve at least as an inter- preter, and ascertain where we were. ‘The boat returned in the course of a couple of hours with a real pilot from Stappen, who brought us a polite message from the principal inhabitant at the place (I believe one of the Danish functionaries) inviting us all to breakfast with lim the following morn- ing. He had probably heard of our arrival at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33280022_0299.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
