Twenty years' reminiscences of the Lews, by 'Sixty-one'.H. Cox, 1871 - 272 Seiten |
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Twenty Years' Reminiscences of the Lews, By 'Sixty-One' George Henry H. Hutchinson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2013 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
beautiful believe better birds Blackwater boat bothy breed Burnaby called Callernish carpet-bag cast caught Celery Dalbeg dear deer Dick forest Fortunately Fred Garrynahine geese gillies glens Grimesta ground grouse hard Harris Harris hills head Hebridean Highland hills island John Munro keeper Killarney killed knew land Laxay Lews little Jock Loch Erisort Loch Seaforth look M'Aulay mainland miles Minch missed morning mouth muir night Old King Cole old Tom's once otter Park passed peat pleasant plenty pointer pool poor Portree remember rifle river rock salmon sea-loch sea-trout Seaforth Island season sheep Shippy Shippy's shore shot side sight sluices snipes Soval shooting sport spring fishing stag stalker stalking steamer Stornoway streams terriers thing took Trialaval turned Valtos walk weather Whack whales wild wind wonderful woodcock
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 161 - It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true ; It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Seite 175 - Killarney ! the little copses in the mountain glens round the upper lake, down which the birds used to come and go ; the black valley, Coomb Dhuv, where I have left bits of my legs ; the hollies and furze bushes at the head of it ; the glorious Caharnies, the beautiful Long Range, the dark Glena ; the lowering Toomies, the grand...
Seite 140 - I like seeing a friend enjoy himself by my rivers' side. He was the most extraordinary fisher I ever saw. He did not fish a river — he thrashed it; and there was not much use fishing after him. His lines were cables; his rods something like the good springy...
Seite 79 - There was nothing to be done now but to join in the chase. We could not succeed in turning or making any hand of the band, and they made good their retreat to sea again. A good many shots were fired, and apparently a good many whales received riflebullets, which drew blood ; but they sank, and I do not think that eventually more than three or four carcasses were recovered.
Seite 74 - Having thus induced them to enter such a loch, you follow them up in the same manner, slowly and distantly, cautiously outflanking, but never pressing or disturbing them. Thus, as it were, left to themselves, they gradually advance up the loch, following their leader ; and, if the tide and shoal and all be propitious, he will of his own accord take the shoal water, even...
Seite 73 - An electric shock seemed to pass through the whole party, and in less than no time every craft in the establishment was manned, and everybody seized every conceivable weapon of offence, and hurried into the boats. The whale boat, our own particular conveyance across Loch Seaforth, was manned by the best crew, under the special guidance of...
Seite 19 - Ms bag-nets had effectually done their work — so effectually that, at the expiration of that season, he begged to be allowed to give up his lease, as he had fished out the island, and would be a heavy loser if held to it. This resignation the proprietor wisely and generously accepted ; but, as far as salmon were concerned, the mischief was done. I do not think that, during the^month we were at Callernish, we killed above three or four grilse.
Seite 73 - M'Aulay, who hoisted his flag on board of it, and then took command of the whole squadron, to watch the movements. The whales had been descried off West Tarbert Loch, in Harris, when all the inhabitants got into their boats, and, following them, "put them...
Seite 73 - We were all sitting together one of those fine days when there is nothing to be done but admire the prospect — if the midges will let you — with just mist enough on the hills to prevent stalking, no breeze for fishing, and grouse too small to shoot, when our notice was attracted by several boats appearing at the mouth of Loch Seaforth.
Seite 142 - Our friend was not a good shot, much as he enjoyed it; but there was no mistake in his shooting — he missed them clean. There was no feathering, or legging, or following up wounded birds. When he hit them, he did it in earnest — the same whack with which...