With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . )t oneold woman, who escaped l)y stealth to the rocks,where she managed to eke out an existence^ in it 11the stewards aveno-ino- boat came the followiniispring, when she crept forth, to the surprise of themurderers, and divulged tlieir Ijlack crime. Fercharwas ])laced on a rock-stack near I^orrera to liveon such biids as he could catch, or starve, but hechose to end his miserable career by flinging himselfinto the sea immediately after the boat that lefthim rowed away. His fellow-
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . )t oneold woman, who escaped l)y stealth to the rocks,where she managed to eke out an existence^ in it 11the stewards aveno-ino- boat came the followiniispring, when she crept forth, to the surprise of themurderers, and divulged tlieir Ijlack crime. Fercharwas ])laced on a rock-stack near I^orrera to liveon such biids as he could catch, or starve, but hechose to end his miserable career by flinging himselfinto the sea immediately after the boat that lefthim rowed away. His fellow-culprit, Dugan, wasplaced on Soa, where his bleacluMl hones, and adirk stuck in the ground besidx; them, were after-wards found in the cave repr(;scnte(l in our ])i(ture,which is known to this day as Dugans DUGANS CAVE. CHAPTER II. THE IJIKDS AND OF .ST. KILDA. nnHE cliffs of St. Kilda and its adjacent islands-*- are of tlie most majestic description. Theliigliest hill, Conagher, stands twelve hundred andtwenty feet aljove the level of the sea, and on oneside it plmiges almost sheer into the ocean below,thus constituting-, accordini> to t)ne authority, thehighest precipice in the British Isles. I sailedunder it twice, and walked—or, rather, crawled onall fours—along its edge, and can hardly tellwhich was the more wondrous and awe-inspiring-experience. Whilst climbing up and down some of thegigantic bulwarks of liirta J was several timesforcibly reminded of fearful nightmares when aboy, and do what 1 would I could not nuiintainan upright posture in some of the most fearsomejjlaces even when I had a })erfectly safe fact may be laid liold u])on l)v some studentof Evolution as nii interesting instance of an in-stinctive return to sonu: remote ancestral nuthodof
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