With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . nown inSt. Kilda. As illustrative of the love of iiiuuh-coloured apparel existent amongsttlie women of this lonelyisle, Seton says, Whenthe Rev. Neil MackenzieAvent to St. Kilda inLS-iO, his servant-maid, anative, asked permissionto take the hearth-rug tochurch by Avay of ashawl. Regarding- her])roposal as a joke heinnocently assented, andto his intinite astonish-ment he beheld the girlin his own pew envelopedin the many - colouredcarpet, the envied of anadmiring congregation !All
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . nown inSt. Kilda. As illustrative of the love of iiiuuh-coloured apparel existent amongsttlie women of this lonelyisle, Seton says, Whenthe Rev. Neil MackenzieAvent to St. Kilda inLS-iO, his servant-maid, anative, asked permissionto take the hearth-rug tochurch by Avay of ashawl. Regarding- her])roposal as a joke heinnocently assented, andto his intinite astonish-ment he beheld the girlin his own pew envelopedin the many - colouredcarpet, the envied of anadmiring congregation !All the w^omen in theisland were eager candi-dates for the ? shawlon th(! following morning, some of them offeringto giv(; ten l)irds for its use. Side bv side with nuu-h tliat was picturcs(|ueand deliglitful in its primitive simplicity, we cameacross things of appalling UKxhrnity : sucli as awonum weaiing a Piccadilh fringe, a piec(> of l)arbe(l-wire stretched round tlie minist(M-s gaiden, and ayouth s])orting a dickx . It is writisli Ishs on the. IRON LAMP OLD LAMJS, AXf) NEW. 23 eve of the twentieth century, it is still possiljle tofind a man sittinjj;- on Friday night in a rude senii-undergTound house lighted only by the primitivestone lamp of his forefathers of prehistoric times ;and still more so, perhaps, to reflect that the sameman may on the following Sunday so far link thedistant past Avith the present as to be sitting inchurch Avith a dicky and tie on, and a co})y of theBible printed in Gaelic on a book-rest before such is the case. When the St. Kildans go to Borrera to pluckthe sheep or catch birds, they stay in a semi-underground hut—which I shall describe hereafter—containing a lamp of the Stone Age still in use. We were able to trace the history of illumin-ation at St. Kilda with a fair degree of complete-ness. First of all we saw the stone lamp onBorrera, then an iron one from which the illus-tration on p. 22 was made, and lastly a cheapparaftin abom
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