of the Palace, and for that reaſon, Salt has ever ſince been in ſuch Eſtimation among them, that no Perſon will go out on any material Affair without taking ſome in their Pockets, much less remove from one Houſe to another, marry, put out a Child, or take one to nurſe, without Salt being mutually interchanged; nay, tho' a poor Creature be almoſt famiſhed in the Streets, he will not accept any Food you will give him, unleſs you join Salt to the reſt of your Benevolence. This is ſo univerſal a thing among them, that a Perſon cannot be three Days in this Iſland without being a Witneſs of the Truth of it, and on aſking the meaning of ſuch a Veneration for Salt, will be told this Story as I have related it, which, ſhould any one ſeem to doubt the Truth of, he would incur the Cenſure of the Inhabitants, as a very prophane Perſon, and a Man who believed neither God nor Devil.
A person at his firſt coming to this Iſland, would be ſtrangely amazed at the little Complaiſance they pay to the weaker Sex: the Men riding always to Market on Horſeback with their Creels on each
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