Scotland/Scots > Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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where a fhip lay waiting to difpeople Sky,
by carrying the natives away to America.
In coafting Sky, we pafTed by the cavern
in which it was the cullom, as Martin re
bates, to catch birds in the night, by making
a fire at the entrance. This practice is dif-
ufed ; for the birds, as is known often to
happen, have changed their haunts.
Here we dined at a publick houfe, I be¬
lieve the only inn of the ifiand, and having
mounted our horfes, travelled in the man¬
ner already defcribed, till we came to Kingf-
borough, a place diflinguifhed by that name,
becaufe the King lodged here when he
landed at Port Re. We were entertained
with the ufual hofpitality by Mr. Macdonald
and his lady, Flora Macdonald, a name that
will be mentioned in hiftory, and if courage
and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with
honour. Slid is a woman of middle ftature, I
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