u 



WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



liaulcd tlieir bojits up in one particular spot tliat 

 the rock is grooved bv the iiTindiiii>' of innuinerable 

 keel-plates. 



Ill that chronicler s time tluM-e were about eighteen 



horses on the island, but now there is not a single one. 



Two hundred years ago the St. Kildans took 



care to keep their graveyard " perfectly free and 



void of any kind 

 of Hastiness " ; but 

 now, alas, it is 

 neglected and over- 

 grown with nettles 

 and other noxious 

 weeds, from the 

 midst of which I 

 saw a single head- 

 stone peeping, grey 

 and gaunt, like a 

 weird sentinel over 

 the sleeping dead, 

 Avho are, after all, 

 in such an utterly 

 out - of - the - Avorld 

 ])lace, only a little 

 more asleep than 

 the ])oor cnnitures 

 who linger round them still able to hear the boom 

 of the sea breaking u})on the rocks at their feet 



One of the first things that struck me as j)ecuHai' 

 about the St. Kildaiis was the almoinial size of 

 their ankle joints and llie ihickness of tlieir inst(>j)s. 

 So much was i impressed witli tliis speciaHscd 

 development — brought about, no doubt, l)y long 

 generations of rock and stccp-liill ('bnd)ing — thai i 

 had tlic i'ool of a man, corresponding as nearly as 

 possil)le in point of size and weiglit with myself. 



Aiithnfs Font. St. Kildan's FimI. 



ANKLE DEVELOPMENT. 



