INDEX 



AAK, 116, 126 

 Aalsund, 144 

 Add river, 47, 228, 243 

 Adeane, Captain, 60 

 Aladdin's cavern, 106-7 

 Alfheim, 142, 180 et seq., 193 et tea., 

 216 



the house at, 186 



the pine-forest remains, 191, 205-6 



Vangen, 195-8 

 Anemones, 105, 106 

 Angular crab, 50 

 Ardskenish, 65, 69, 76, 78, 93 

 Argyll, Duke of, 238 

 Ashburton, Lady, 14 

 Asplenium marinum, 35 

 Autelets, les (Sark), 102, 107 



Badminton Magazine, 22 

 Barsloisnach pheasants, 232 

 Bears, 119, 141, 170-2, 197 



the bear- trap, 171 



Bell, British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, cited, 



50 

 Ben, black spaniel, 51, 77, 81, 91, 248, 



252, 267 



Benney, Professor, 108 

 Birch-trees for sleigh runners, 188 

 Bird boxes, 128 

 Bird life : at Alfheim, 203 



in Colonsay, 38, 43 et seq. 

 Bird memories, 45 

 Black-backed gull, 51, 244 



Black Beak (precipice). See Svart 



Snuta 



Blackcock, 38, 94, 228-9, 239 

 Blackdown pond, 114 

 Black game, 61, 62, 76, 238 

 Blinded farmer, the, 194 

 Boat-fishing v. shore-fishing, 209 

 Bonham Carter, Alfred, 237, 244 

 Bonsor, Cosmo, 232 

 Book of Sark, 103, 108 

 Braemore, 12 et seq. 



visitors' book at, 21-2 

 Bruce, Abyssinian traveller, 136 



Biigten farm, 218 



Bulwer Lytton's Pelham quoted, 258 



Buzzard, Common, 59 



CADDIE, the, 88 



Cailleach, the, 26 



Cairns, Lord, 8-12 



Campbell, keeper, 76, 81-3 



Canterbury bells, 184 



Capercailzie, 238 



Carnivora, absence of, from Colonsay, 



63 



Chepmell, Dr., cited, 104 

 Chough, the, 25, 56 et seq., 94 

 Clinton, Lord Albert, 119 

 Cole, Miss, 215 et seq. passim 

 Colonsay, 24 et seq., 65 



amusement in, 31 



bird life, 38, 43 et seq. 



climate, 32 



coast of, 43 



comparison with Sark, 100 



fauna, 32, 63 



fishing, 29, 31, 65 



game birds in, 29 et seq. t 61 



golf at, 85 et seq. 



harbour, 28, 32 



lakes on, 31-2 



language, 38 



old beliefs prevalent in, 40-2 



primeval remains in, 28-29 



St. Columba's well, 38 



sanctuary for fauna, as, 63 



seals in, 27, 33-4, 63 et seq., 89, 



92,93 



shooting in, 29-31, 46, 62, 94 



some bags, 30 



Strand, 36, 65 



superstitions prevalent in, 40-2 

 " Colonsay ducks," 43 

 Colonsay, Lord, 26 



Colquhoun, The Moor and the Loch, 



233 

 Columba, St., 29 



well of, 38 

 Cook, Captain, 238 



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