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Rolling in the grey North Atlantic swell, His Majesty's sloop Harebell and the steamer Dunara Castle lay off the bleak precipitous island of St. Kilda last week. Plunging out through the surf. Royal Navy lifeboats carried to the Harebell 35 passengers, the entire population of St. Kilda, which the Harebell's precise commander reported thus: Men, able bodied...
Meanwhile the captain & crew of the Dunara Castle were working like demons, stowing the pitiful furniture and belongings of the St. Kildans aboard ship, pulling from the icy water 590 bellowing, redeyed, shaggy little Highland cattle and bleating sheep, which had been made to swim out from St. Kilda's gravelly landing beach (St. Kilda has no harbor). Left behind were hundreds of other sheep, too wild to catch, hidden away in the island caves with the seamews and the puffins. Reason for the exodus: St. Kilda's new owner, the Marquess of Ailsa and the British Labor...
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