Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1886-11-26
! ST. KILDA.
a Cu4 Gus Island Off the Scot
ush Coast.
A Pla1 Where Sea Birds Form the
Fqpsrt Olths Iahib.tlnts.

'ANf fu- bit of hal is St. KHda.u
says Il. s-rlon Necs. Tt lies sixty miles
beyond 'llrrri, and Is tlo miles distant
from che mainland. Near it are the
bira.infstel isles Of soly and Boreray
but 81. qua one boasts human ten.
aafa b 1881 the island contained
amilies, or seventy seven per
= hif y-threc mules and forty-lour
females. They live in a little grecn val
ley which Slope. to the sea. The island
itself fosrs part Of the ancient estate of
Dunvegah. Once upon a time the vii
lage Of 81. Kilda looked like Hotten-
tot "kpl.' The houses were huts
built O SO stones and turf, and filled
with an mosphcro Of Parental smoke.
Eo8 tl s. are better ordered. The
houses built Of stone with roofs of
the generosity Of Macleod of Macleod the
hereditary possessor Of the land. No
part Of The world is more famous for its
o''1 ''-'" ''''9 ''o''''0
nestle in thousands. The fuImar, the
gannet 6, g,ilemots, putfns, cider ducks,
and othelS sea fowl exist in countless
svarns. Theso birds form, in fact,
Ihe stay ~ support OF INC ot, hI'u" |
iolA. ls'"nueis say 'nal inc iulin"r'
or stormy petrel, gives mem oil lor purn-
neat anI al ointment o. salve for tbojr
.if9rmitieJ There are no hons on 81
Kilda a j, hirds snn.lv tto nlaco
q tbo aIosto fo,.I ,n,iotolr ana
n. oen,o 1sa.,. ~ orono
,;ouoa III, 80 euo,n .i,o oar.s and
- h;s5 Ii rha ,no.,on
III. IN. Is,,,i,s.al - Co. t,,oir
- .g - g., -, aaa 1,, ar
as.,... ] al. , ,rs -, ova
- 49, ~
nonnas, T.. ~ - t,anis rntgn
rar;otv far
80. - ,.
sho clo4b ;sl',,itst o.
nor scotclH IN uI;. a. aat1o o.o
specially rated. For EIGHT or nine
months at time ST Kilda NAV have no
interco.irs1 with thesouter world. Life
on the ID vags slowly and peace
fully, y sosonously along. The storms
= Inc NllE kymA acal affect not the St.
~ 49, 'o --.,isas s'aianders are iexemp
gu 80 P'iVo 'fouoies-a fact helo
" so''l' uusia''io oo'e0fs 70 DC aue
= - ~ 81 ry;I1 FJ,.' 80 ~ ~
,14nN.'
- r. -. -
-. ~ 'N,''t ~, i,btI dor - Nv I a,,'l D a.
noo,,lo oro I'D 70 ho ,nhioot - .,.a;as
- ira..on., Will M, -,
STRANGERS .sit tbe isle Nobodv lno,ra
how this ,lment is convened a. what n
i Ma Infection i nros,nod - ~
oorr;od frsn,.rbo ,,is;,isa,, stoamor = A.
shore. Inn nevertheless tbo Ct K;I1o
foIk hoao 70 snuff and - ,,,.,.,o
wbeoovortbe tourist s.,so, sots in
n.. ;.,,..
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,u''o''''N ! 's.. iD9'' =" -
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: - @' ..;. 5a...s. 49, -, - S",''
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- 1 ,I..,.o af 49, - ,''li WV
I'D Ia sont = go - ,'',o
- .ffor .on,o ,,,oo,,s - IT
5'-.n,, oont.;ua5 - - 4 -,
a,5 = be bronabt nndor n.e no+'oa -
..a.a 5onovolonf oor.or VIII, for,,,..1.a
i. mossaoo q - dos3inat;o. il 75I;
,u..b Tbo ,o,.orona ,.on+r1,.,oa i al:
,'...oioo+io, - ~ ..;.o;.aI :, 49,
P-.s Church coIIcoe in tho sco4+i.h
,a,-o.eis ,noko Of the dissstrlns
no,ioj tbroorh which III. noo,,Io and
himself had passed in St. KiJda. Thew |
were dit of evervtbino in fact If tbo /
message was to be believed and uoro
anyioasly awoiting helm from tho cbor,+v
and benoyolenco Of the mainland Tbis
rornvas duIv oisnotcbod - tbam rho ~
JlekaI, Government vessel was
s5ntto the island. and an official Of tbo
board OF supervision was deputied,
along with TIE surgeon of the ship, to
report upon 80 state of things in the
island. IL reformation IA question has
now come I. land. The reporter tells
Us tlat he t.und from iour to six hun
dred falmata s.ted and stored as ptovls-
ions in aah family AZ single fulmar
affords fqa meal ioy au adult, it iol-
lows thai ;f.m eight to twelve hundred |
meat rati ..s arc contained in each house