New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-03
ST. KILDA.
THE HOME OF REMARKABLE ISLAND
PEOPLE.
From The Culver.

From The CULVER
We are sometimes too apt to think Of Gods
servants laborinG in lonely ana savage lands
Tar outside the confines of the British Isles as
the only people who deserve our admiration.
forgetting that there are educated ana rehned
men living and preaching HIS Woi" IN exie
even within the seas that WASH IN" shofes OK
tho United Kingdom Not long ago mad the
privilege with my brother. OF spending some
DAYS on the lonely isle Of ST hliha ylhs some
6ftv miIes west If the outermost H"rildes and
constantly dashed by the stormy waters OF the
Northern Atlantic. We were the hrst people
from the outside world seen for auoni ME
months unless some stray fshinS-sHla'h rad
yentured into Village Bay during id'oraoe
smell Of weather and il sounded Very orange
indeed to hear ourselves greeted IN fhghsh
by a hearty Happy New fsar 10 you t ,i ca,ns
alongside us Gaelic is the language spoken,
but most of the young people Kn"" fhsnsn'
and can express themselves very wen, J. sGIhe
what oddly at times, in II. Inc H''I' IsIditu
commonwealth numbers some seventy SOUS,
Including the minister, the Rev MT. flnaes'
who is spiritual guide, doctor s'ho'iinas'er'
c,rnen,er and general adviser to ms We mock.
nj. dav ON which we landed was Saturday,
ond as chief Macleod of Macleod" "hom
the island beongs--had sent ms lacto' Vi sue"
ard John Mackenzie, Jr whose sueS.99 w va"
,yith provisions for the year. the NATIVES hdo
hard days work bringing them from I'M snip
Next morning we prepared 10 at''h" 'ne 1870
IN tho little kirk behind the Manse bu' "hen
n o,clock came round .he old ships ueh efeceu
- 3D. ron ~ a stone wall close bv was silent,
and nobody appeared astir on deNo'"hs peh,,
We ultimately discovered tha' Inv t'ht
minister had passed the word i"uhu w '' IN
L.fore that in consequence OF tht 'Aia .Vn
a,d .ycrtion imposed by the landing 81 uee
years provisions service would pesih al i-oy
instead Of II o'cluck. The service was ''i,"u'.eu
throughout in the Gaelic language ana ho-
ticed that quite - per cent OF the 'h'i' p'f""
ton put in an appearance.
yERsED IN THE SCRIPTURES
Z. a. ma
imagined when il Is stated tnat ihahy ~ ue
ia ,.o,,l. are said 40 know the Blnl' ny hedit
from, he ginning TO end ana tha' ''S al. a.,
excellent at discourse. The chutch - " 1 "r"
rectangular building the floor OF WIN" H''lo'
coreiderahly from the end where the ''hS'esa-
,ion enters 10 that at which the putl" y, ~
rum i situated This floor conslt,S ~ "a
,rodd.n mother earth. except for a -" LUZ,
,ns. ho,rds inc Immediately beneath the leet
of IN. worshippers as they SIT IN 'h,' 80
and a supply ~ cement, roughly IA" ~ .
Fiddess own hands, down 'ne a. .O,yhsd hi,
occasion after the minister had hhls''n us
service in Gaelic. Of which We dld n"' u'neI
stand q word. he CONSIDERABLY pteaen.. ,hs
appropriate sermonette FOR me p'n' ,,,, "a
Sassenachs (all strangers visiting ~. Nl"', ~
termed SassenLchs 10y the na'Nes' s'''"s
<, Kinda is the only Inhabited part 81 'iea,
pri,ain which has never been officially sur"'y.u
D., ,b. Ordnance department. and propap'y 'ie
only place boastng anything like the sanIt nu
Der Of inhabitants where drunkenness. h','on nIa
ar sua smOlC. eutlrtiN uNhH'"h
are exceedingly well behaved. ana ah"oos"
rather inatlisitive which is, after all oh'y ha'
ural consequence Of such utter isoiat1r'l ~ ~.
ar. doomed Ia. they ar" scrupulouSly n"''St' az
We proved over ana over aEdIn ~ ~, ,,no,t
sor,s If small articles Of value ABOUT "l'"ou.
missing a single one. The rock an" ,' o.
the toughest and most stuIendous 10 ~ IN. ~
onvvh.r. IN the British Isles. 'ohaSh'I' I'D.
highest hill in - kda. rises almost sh'ei "us
~ the sea 80 feet. and ,he VAST huhu''S y.
birds iuhahiting it's Lodges, creNIcts ana '.''eS
are beyond all powers of computation ~ .
seen them pour from the "hole race 81 VIZ ''
cliff in such an appalling 'iou" a. :" ,teir
even the imagination, while the mons 81 80 .
wvriad wings suggested the low Growi 81 dis'aht
thunder him, , birds
catching and plucking "A number oi 'i' Sru',s
,.n,,,.,, - no commonwealth are taken IN todt
IN tho island OF BOrrcra and ludseu III ''"..
semi UNDERGROUND house, where thcy az - -
Ia dn their work watch ~ Kept upon ,"e
island from ST. Kilda, when Is ioui 81 Nv Nv sre
away and directly the girls friends see Il nre
unon the open hillside, or three or l"uI 'ne
strips OF turf turned over they Know thal , 'ns
Of them is III or their work mas p'et 'n's.1,,
and - IN. weather s favorable at ono S',,t
owov with the boat for the island on - NINA
and Eorrera are numbers of ORDINARY ''u'"
black faced sheep but on Soa "A si".l"' '','" "
LITTLE brown ones * to hc round IH'5 a. a.,
markedly ike Icclandc sheep. ana are I'l''.":
wild They belong exclusively TO the rl'li",o',
who keeps the breed pure by preF"h'hS ui
Introduction Of any black faced Specimens, ""1
coils them to The natives al hali-a-croMh " H'".
Tho ~ Eildans are kept busy ALI Inc WHIT
through weaving tweed cloth. which looks "a
ce.dinsiy pretty when the two KINDS 81 "o.
have been mixed. and is wonderfully du'"''' 80
have proved 10y an extensive trial "a
MIR Fidl.s takes one or two pupils 70 ii'lt
,b.p, for the Universities. and can conceive
no better place Tor a studious young MA" W
spend nine solitary months than ms nom -
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