I speak of fishing only now, for I had long felt differently about fowling, and sold my gun before I went to the woods.
Iceland was not agricultural but pastoral, depending upon flocks and herds for subsistence, for, though rye and other grain would grow in favoured localities, the hay, self-sown, was the only regular crop. In some districts the fisheries and fowling Mode of were of importance, but nine-tenths of the population M i lved by their sheep and cattle.
Fowling has somewhat decreased in modern times, as the fisheries have risen in importance.
