William Morris Archive

14 July 1871 Reykjavík [1]


Bibliographic Citation

Martin Stott, photographer, “14 July 1871 Reykjavík [1],” William Morris Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/1677.

Title

14 July 1871 Reykjavík [1]

Creator

Martin Stott, photographer

Description

‘The town now lying ahead is a commonplace-looking little town of wood principally; but there are pretty-looking homesteads on some of the islands off it, and the bright green of their home-meads is a great relief to us after all the grey of the sea, and the ice-hills. At last we come to anchor and the boats pull off to us and the flags are run up to the flagstaffs of the stores on shore, and to the masts of the craft in the harbour, which include a French war-brig and gunboat, and several small Danish schooners and sloops: the Frenchmen are here to look after the interests of the 400 sail of French fishing vessels that do most of the deep sea fishing off Iceland: we saw several of them yesterday’ (IJ p. 23)