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WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. 



strong smell of Fulmar oil, the plenitude of birds' 

 wings and feathers on the midden heaps, and the 

 numbers of birds' eggs that adorn nearly every 

 window. 



Whether they mistrust each other in Hirta or 

 not I do not know, but I was somewhat surprised 



WOODEN LOCK. 



DETAILS OF LOCK. 



to find that in a community where ciime is unknown 

 they had ingeniously- constructed wooden locks on 

 all their cowhouse doors. The fact that the cow- 

 houses were once dwelt in by the people themselves 

 cannot be accepted as a satisfactory explanation, 

 inasmuch as they have instead of utilising the old 

 locks for their dwelling-houses made new ones, 

 although oak and other kinds of hard wood are 



