Nevertheless, they soon came to understand each other. Neither looked at the amount of the payment:the one was ready to accept whatever was offered;the other was ready to give whatever was demanded. Never was bargain more readily concluded.
The result of the treaty was, that Hans engaged on his part to conduct us to the village of Stapi, on the south shore of the Sn?fell peninsula, at the very foot of the volcano. By land this would be about twenty-two miles, to be done, said my uncle, in two days.