Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay here
Kilmaluag Kirkibol
Scourie Borve
“Their appearance was truly
appalling
Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place
Scerrymains
Portree Duntulm Scullam
and their grief on being
rejected
Going because peat is not gold, aye,
hame can be gye feckless cauld
Achnahannait
Bundalloch Hungladder Uig
most painful
to witness.”
(Quotation
from the shipping records of the
Highland and Islands Emigration Society
found on the Scottish Archive Network
www.scan.org.uk)