Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 62 | Island Has Odd History

ISLAND HAS ODD HISTORY Shetland Soil oll Wan Ives aN Home of Norse and ors Sn nor of Fair Island twenty five miles south sonth of all the other has had a n strange enough pageantry passing over Its rocky surface For not only was It the home of ot tho the and then of or tho the Norse orso ant and for tor tho the orse the thc eign signal l be beacon con to give 0 w warning of or the coming of or the hostile sail besides that is supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied a chapter In the romance of ot the Spanish armada For hero wa was wreck wrecked d tho the ship of ot Don Gomez do Medina and that noble and his naSa men ware waive for a time most generously generously gen gen- entertained by the Islanders But time passed the Spaniards stayed the meal and the mutton diminished Then the Islanders wrapped In b by the wild storms unable ratable to get to an nn any other island and fearful of ot famine amine hid their food Tho The forced guests grew weak man many died of ot starvation star aDd and nome home It ItIs itis Is sal said were pushed over o the tall cliffs I Into the sea At I last st one Andrew Umphrey took tho the Spaniards awn away In a ship and anel since Inee that day the name of ot Umphrey has hns been heen powerful In the s. s The Fair Fall Island people show plain traces of or Spanish blood but the they re reent resent resent re- re I sent ent the suspicion of or it It sa saying that the Spaniards were I Isolated when on the island It Is hard haid to conceive how Isolation could well be possible possible on an Island two miles square besides beside the Fair Island people do not deny that the strange stran strange e patterns anti the lichen Hehen dyeing of ot the stockings and caps and shawls t their women knit were tau taught ht them b by the Spaniards and Indeed the same sort fiort of at handicraft Is found to this da day in country places of at Spain