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A FLIGHT TO ST. KILDA
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at nine o'clock, so we
had to make the best use of our time. A number of men
and women came out with eggs of sea-fowl for sale, such
as guillemots' and fulmars' (a penny each); while others
had stout Tweed cloth of home manufacture, three
shillings a yard, which could be brought down by hard
prigging to half-a-crown. The spinning, weaving, and
dyeing were all native work. On account of
the thickness of the
cloth, I was told that the men of St. Kilda were in the
habit of making the women's dresses.
Looked at from the sea, St. Kilda had a
strong resemblance to Ailsa Craig, with more stone
visible than grass; while the row of one-storey
cottages, a little bit off from the shore, with a plot
of cultivated ground in front, had a certain resemblance
to Lamlash or Brodick. There were sundry other smaller
islands, but this is the only |
