Voyages and travels
Why the Mull of Cantyre is included—Islay, Scarba, and Jura—Legend of the Whirlpool of Corrievreken—Oban—The Serpent Mound—Serpent Legends—Dunstaffnage—Legend of the Coronation Stone—Iona—Legends of St. Colomba and his Druidic Predecessors—The 360 Crosses—360 Sacred Stones of...
Why the Mull of Cantyre is included—Islay, Scarba, and Jura—Legend of the Whirlpool of Corrievreken—Oban—The Serpent Mound—Serpent Legends—Dunstaffnage—Legend of the Coronation...
3. CHAPTER III.Old Church Customs—Lack of Timber—Encroachments of the Sea—Dr. Johnson in Skye—Legend of Hugh’s Castle—The Rock Wilderness of Quraing—Duntulm Castle—Plague of Midges—Great Sacra...
4. CHAPTER IV.A Concert Room—Duntulm Castle—Chapel of Fladda—Magic Stones and Crystals—Summer Yachting—Fairy-like Caves—Legends of Water Kelpies and Brownies—Of Divers Superstitions still pre...
5. CHAPTER V.Traces of Olden Days—Modern Witchcraft; Selling a Gale; Bewitching Cows; Evil Eye; Numbering the People; Leaving a House Unswept; Making Clay Images to Harm a Neighbour; Jealous...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.St. Kilda—Home of the Sea-bird Inhabitants—High Character—Toilsome Lives—Traces of Old Churches, and Assimilated Paganism—Edicts Sanctioning this—Ritual Combs—Martin’s Visit to...
8. CHAPTER VIII.At Anchor in Loch Staffin—Sail to Portree—A Calm—Whistling for the Wind—Literal Pouring of Oil on the Waters—A Fortnight Alone in the Rock Wilderness—Sligachan Inn—The Cuchullin...
9. CHAPTER I.A pleasure trip to India seems to be one of the possibilities, still so novel as hardly to have taken a definite place in the British mind, which invariably conjures up dreary v...
10. CHAPTER II.“The Isles, where dewy morning weaves Her chaplet with the tints that twilight leaves; Where late the sun, scarce vanished from the sight, And his bright pathway graced the shor...
11. CHAPTER III.“Here by each stormy peak and desert shore, The hardy Islesman tugs the daring oar. Here rise no groves, and here no gardens blow, Here e’en the hardy heath scarce dares to grow...
12. CHAPTER IV.“How gallantly, how merrily, we ride along the sea! The morning is all sunshine, the wind is blowing free; The billows are all sparkling, and bounding in the light, Like creatur...
13. CHAPTER V.The songs and legends of our sailors, and the suggestions which they now whisper to me of an interest deeper than their own, linking them to kindred tales of the far east, also...
14. CHAPTER VI.“Ye trusted in our Hieland men, They trusted you, dear Charlie, They kent your hiding in the glen, Death and exile braving. English bribes were all in vain, Tho’ poor—and poorer...
15. CHAPTER VII.Having as yet had but a distant view of the Outer Hebrides, we determined that the next cruise of the _Gannet_ should be in their direction. The principal islands included under...
16. CHAPTER VIII.O hone! O hone! to think that such a change could have passed o’er the spirit of our dream. Here we are once again in beautiful Loch Staffin. But can it be that this is indeed t...
17. Chapter II.By the way, it is curious to notice that this word Gilgal is still in use in Brittany to denote those great tumuli to which many stones were “rolled.” Such an one for instance a...