The daily morning Alaskan., 1901-07-20
Lonely St. KiIda

Am English census officer has recent N made his regular trip Co a spot in tbc British dominion, abou, which thc ordinary person knows very httle
 Forty miles oaUist Is the island .oi St KGdl. thc most westerly point oi Great Britain Modern events have had ht,lr effect upon the liic there For cigm month, oi thc year thc island is absolutely shut o0 from thc world, and ryrn in the summer months there iN btil, intercourse with thc mainland.
 The eunboat which carried the cen ,u, odc,r will take che islanders theu fr,t new, oi che death oi their Queen, but even were it che bearer oi more cheerful news it would be uhoSptahN received tor thc people oi St kilda believe, that strange vessel, l1ndink ou their coast 1lWly, bring thc "Uo1,L" dreaded epidemic which carrie, ol large proportion oi tho island. population and |, particularly fatal Co children
 Superstition and tradition run riot in St kId1: and thc surrounding, arc certainly calculated Co foster wild leg cud The island, are hulc more than D eroup oi rocks. thc longest being on- k three mile, loug. and rise u the great chI, above thc open Atlantic. whose wave, roar and beat coniinu ,u,k against thc jagged rock,
 On ihc clii, sea bird, iu counties, number lIyc and breed. and the scream ,ne ot thc bird, and thc roaring oi thc wave, dr thc air pcWctullly driving thc stranger on che island almost Go insanity before hc can accu,tom mm. ..I. tu fhc sound The bird, are thc stan %, l.c ior thc people
 \hum forty acres oi land are cuIti. ,1t,J uu che island, aui produce poo ,ltlc, and lot,. and few cattle grafc .u thc cliffs. hut thc sea bird, furnish reht. upl and iooj for thc islanders Ten, ut thousand, oi them are killed every summer and thc oi from thc Hrl, aro burned for fuel and heht while tbc flesh is eaten The young hrJ, arc >o iull oi oil that it IS thc custom to skin and dry their bodic, uuI attach them Co stick, for use a, t.rch.. Oi course. thc smell O. these torches Is worse than SVeilu darkness. hut uo ouc object, Go it u St NilIa
 In tu, o'j days there were ahou, tUu hundred inhabitants ou tbc islands. Im thc last ccu,u, registered ouN seventy. seven. lnd rn umc thc bleak place win probably be lcit Go thc wave, lrl thc h.rl, More than once St Ndh la, figured m romantic history and ouc most exciting episode m which thc island played a part wa, thc Hd uapiu- O. Lady Grange
 In fhc day, oi thc Jacohuc upri,inc Lord Grange hkc many u;hcr tuI,h man with lu eye ior thc maiu chance Na, trying Go keep unc iuot uu each side oi thc fence Ili, brother ihc earl nf Var vl, 5t thc head oi King Iamo, army and Lady Grange was che ,aruchc.t oi Ilcob'tc, Tier husbands 1ouh',jcI'uc and coVarIicc iu'uriltrd her. lul at last she told hm Ha,ly chat sine owed more Co thc king than Go her husband. and that she would cNpo-e In, Jrgachcry
 She never had a chance Co carr, oui her treat. tor thc next d3y ford Grange Kidnapped her u High street. Ejuhurlh. and sent her Go Skye Latter 10 ua, thought safer to utle hcr place .. imprisonment ,ull more remote and she wa. taken Co St kiljJ Vhsr, le ul, lgp, m dc>oIltc cViIc tor ,i-h' years
 The NcLcouj> have owned S' kida for -o1 wears. and it now ht''Je, to Mcleod ui Mcleod ihnu-h l'r' uwm.r, own. thc tgulll -'eht- .ui receives each year ihc tculJI 1u', of .u. -n.huE