The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-11-17
THE KING OF lnnIsHKEA.
He Dwells on an Irish Island y n u $
Mayo Tribe,

~ VIZ I'LL ITtSu iSlAlii ~ v IS n
Mayo Tribe,
About sixteen miles from Dugort, in
Aehin island, put to sea, looking like a
thin line of sand in the waves OF the
Atlantic, is the island of Innishkea.
One fine morning u party started to
visit it In a trusty hooker. AS the
hooker came in sight of the shore great
excitement was visible among the
islanders, and it was very hard to real
lie thai We We're still but thirty-six
hours journey from London. The, in-
habitants turned ont en- masse, the
women ind children in their scanty
garments of red flannel crouclled out
side their cabins while numbers of men
ran down to the beach and put out il
their coracies on chance of rowing us
to n 1T was II strange scene and
~nuriously like Il picture plate in q boys
book of adventures.
We knew there wal a ''king' OF In
nishl<en, aud soon n tall, bronze faced
man was pointed out to us as his mai
esty. On landing all the party were
introduced and conducted by him to
1.-THE palace" where the queen dowager
with her daughter babe us welcome /; n
true Irish fashion. The old lady was
n her picturesque native costume-red
dress and plaid shawl over her head;
the princess, however, had evidently
ON first sight of the hooker arrayed
herself in modern fashion to do us
honor; and we were amused on peue-
trnting into tho reception room to find
advertisements from shops in Bucking-
ham palace road and st. Puul's church.
yard hung "p to embellish the wall,
though only by a favored few could
they be read.
The island was destitute of any
school or means of instruction for the
rhildren, u very small proportion
either understood or spoke English,
and there was neither watch nor clock
among the. people, who had a happy 90
lucky idea of time and troubled them
selves little as to Greenwich regula-
tons. There were no church bells to
ring, no trains to catch, no office hours
requiring ~punctualitv: so when the sun
was high in the heavens they
would get through their very ar.
duous farming duties, aud
when he sunk in the great waste Of
waters they could sleep. The kings
word settled all disputes; it was a
hereditary monarchy, and his people,
as far rs he was concerned, We're un-
taxed.
Happy those states. thought some of
the visitors, where royalty could be
maintained with so little cost and SOW
eretgn content with so little grandeur.
However, l am in honesty bound to
add hat we found King Phillip had
other means of filling his Golfers be-
sides levying taxes on his faithful sub
Iects, and had learned the art of max
ing good his opportunity whenever the
Saxon stranger ventured to land on his
,hore.
But Inniskea has an interest alto.
gether apart from it's situation, sur.
rounded as it is by lovely views oil
lmountnin cliff and rocky heudlnnd. On
This spot, hundreds of years ago, early
Christian missionaries landed and on
the top Of a shelly mount. half a mile
from the beach, are Christian remains
Of great antiquity. West of the island
there stand also the ruins of q ehurci
said to have been built by the sue,
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