Christmas in Iceland - 15.12.1940, Page 34

than in the baking plains where I left you. I
wish to gaadness I could get away to a real-
ly cold country like Kenya.
Then he mopped a lump of snow from his
brow and asked the leader of the rescue par-
ty if he had brought a nice cold thrist-quen-
cher.
Tcha! Tcha! A great pity, because we ra-
ther liked this particular officer.
Anonymous.
Disastrous Times in Iceland.
After a catastrophic two years of more or
less constant volcanic eruptions which ended
in July 1783, casulaties among men and cattle
in Iceland had risen to a frightful height.
Stephenson, an authority in Iceland, wrote
that 9336 men and women, 28 000 horses,
11 461 horned cattle, and 190 488 sheep were
destroyed.
ALABASTER CROSS-
WORD SOLUTION
On page 11.
His numbers, however, are thought to be
exaggerated. The most moderate calculations
makes casualties amount to 1300 human
beings, 19 488 horses, 6801 horned cattle, and
129 937 sheep.
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