328 TKAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



had their traditions and dread memories, the villages 

 their simple but affecting tales, and the mountains 

 their ancient legends ; but to us these things were a 

 sealed book. All that was open to us on which to 

 report was the beautiful scenery of a succession of sea 

 lochs unparalleled in any other part of the world, and 

 the indications of the existence of a large, industrious, 

 comfortable, and almost wealthy population such as 

 mountains and islands nowhere else present. 



