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had plenty of deer upon it. There were deer, 

 too, on Lewid and Carneval, the hills adjoining 

 the lodge. The grouse shooting — if the dis- 

 ease, of the existence of which we were duly 

 informed, had not done mischief — was fairly 

 good. There was good sea-trout fishing, with 

 occasional salmon, in the difierent lochs. The 

 lodge — for Lewis lodges — ^had some sort of 

 accommodation. Altogether, as things went, 

 it was the best thing in the island. They 

 offered us Gress and Soval shootings on the 

 most moderate terms ; indeed, we might have 

 had them for what we chose to give. But we 

 stuck to our text, and took Aline for seven 

 years, specifying for certain things to be done 

 there before we took possession, and while 

 this was doing R. M. and I were sent to 

 the Callemish Inn, there to locate ourselves 

 and fish the Grimesta river and lochs and the 

 Blackwater. F. M. having business on the 

 mainland, returned thither. 



It was a queer place that said Callernish Inn, 

 then — the dirtiest little den it was ever my 

 misfortune to locate in. With the exception of 

 the inns in Stomoway, and one small house at 

 Dalbeg, it was the only caravanserai in the 

 Lews. It was an exertion to hold on to the 

 hard, slippery, black horsehair chairs ; the beds 



