The people of these Outer Isles have a remarkable attachment for their native soil. Far removed from ordinary means of communication—it is rarely that the ordinary tourist has an opportunity of a. close glimpse of these isles of the sea—they are a race apart. They have as little akin with the people of the crowded cities as we of the cities have with the times of Tutankhamen. Of late years their isolation has been steadily broken in upon, yet most of these people, on the mental and the spiritual side highly developed, with a simplicity, a kindliness and a natural culture which give ther dignity and distinction, live on the physical side under conditions that would stagger dwellers on the
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