Show KILLING WHALES ON OH LAND A great creat feat and quite common on the isles ABANDONED MINES NEAR LERWICK knitters of kelp kf ip ancient tho common CArri carriero cro tho shetland Shel laud crofters A courteous race Thi arror I 1 ICK bho llanil land ort oct 30 20 1900 1310 whatever their condition la in the past it would mould bo be difficult to rind find any lowly people more generally prosperous and comfortable than ihan aro are tho the shetland 10 andors at the present time their industries are ar kelp gathering and burning sheep raising hand making of hosiery and other knit roods goods m baling and the unive universal roal fishing tho the mineral wealth of the has so far boon of little Import ancA at opposite mousa island suit ami lit its famous tower there iber la is an abandoned copper mine with idle and riming machinery over against grim head I 1 found another abandoned mine where in ili search for copper thousands thousand of tons of iron pyrites had bad been thrown into the soa chromate quarries at Balta baltasound sound in tho th north igloi efto remained no touched for years while in ID derosay island inland are slate quarries bit bal tho the slates ar am too heavy for modern houses and th the thicker strata are 11 utilized for paying paving stones at OR lerwick being paved pay with altu Ur essay flags aaa was formerly carried on extensively and still 11 1 a means of subsistence by many this kelp gathering and burning 14 I 1 still a source of livelihood on tho the arran islands island ireland on the west ept roast coast of scotland brot land at in tho the A FR abnot in many places on tho the shetland coats Is dangerous oilseed and destructive of health though the ohp thord u ord belp is often applied to suit soft weed li it 1 lt the product from the iho horning of if seaweed from froio which tit aliu alkali soils onro once so largely used in tho tha of RIAR RIA R and soap snap was waa oh ob tallied arid ann from which iodine Is s still secured tho the se evol aro are called by natives I taun lP thy they aro are detached front rum the iho silos sides of rocks and frequently great swoop fortunate tortu nato plies i of tile clat ioury muff in upon tho the ledges of aho ih gin they are gathered stacked stac koil thatched ant and dried for several weeks tint and in the au tire aro burned in rude pon pits or oens along tile the shore the th allies fusing fining into a solid substance of tho the density of freestone which Is broken up before biding being sent to the market kelp gathering furnishes mail many pinter scone along tho the desolate shores as bomon and ami children cb ildron are eni lint aloyed FAMOUS kitta tho the hosiery and other knit woolens w alb como come from the hands of shetland women are famous they are as caaso loss os knitters knitter a or Con find and donegal Po negal in ireland and produce fabrics of wondrous delicacy of texture tho the preparation of the iho clarn arn has much to do with the and softness of their work fleeces aro are never shore T the h 0 creel practice of ruel ng or removing tho the wool from sheep by pulling it out by the tho roots in handfuls Is still ent the alio finest wool Is thus procured a and of tho the average weight of tho the most arl briod 7 e d fleeces I 1 14 but two pounds tho the of taft numble fingered women formerly consisted only of 0 coarse woolen stuffs and lino fine shetland shawls did not become common until about 1 1841 the finest coll coller llon of knit goods ever produced in the islands was presented preson tM to 10 the princess of on her bar marriage in 1963 1863 this season a large shawl na as sold at lorwick lerwick for 75 it only weighed two and five ounces arid another which aich sold for P 1 15 l weighed but bin two and onn ona half ounces some of lb ahe a designs aro are marvelously beautiful TUX TUB OP OF the Pate avid and other whaling ni ships formerly complo completed ted their crows at lerwick and thoo these limes were always periods of great activity of law late years shod la ia whaling whaI liiK has hai ben been principally confined to 10 driving the monsters ashore this exciting work Is often tremendously profitable jo in a shiell of lolo 1010 calno cal nj whales were driven ashore in Quen quindale dale aitay itay the southernmost bay of shetland lying between sumburgh Sum burgh and fitful heads and in june of tho the present year a shoat of i oral bundred was successfully landed on the eat coast until quite recently these shore chalers whalers after fter ern illy requited for their captures the financially ono omnivorous 0 I 1 landlord arid lard called the caird tal rd here true to his octopus instincts claimed the ibe right up to 1839 1830 to tax the poor nm one half halfon of tire entire proceed of all 1 whales driven into shoal water opposite or upon the shores shore of their domains a sort of riparian right on tho the almighty for what wa at sent to la silvis avo man mail from on account of rents arid and other burdens mooed mp oed by the laird jaird himself on an old explained to me A As the value of tho the blubber will average per ton the i 1 laird a I 1 rd often thus recur ad from to in a single catch from 1839 to ms 1898 the lairds were considerate enough to rob tho the wh allers of but ono thard in september of that year the claim was wan la in the courts the balers won their cause and tho the Jal lols have bavo sine since been compelled to content themselves with the meager of enjoyment of witnessing rather than pro filing by the hamir dous work liivi 0 TOK tax LILLEO A whon when a drove of baing ea Ing whales appear on the iho coast tho the new nen a spreads like oil drops or on As aa the town ofal of st iver ivea cornwall goes toes mad aben ft a of pitchers Is sighted so doos does every live desert ever efery other vocation even to a wedding to tojo join lolo I 1 a the drive A rush rash ts Is matlo madir by the ho mon for the boats while women and children wildly collect gun ammunition harpoons scythes lances guns gun kukes knives and even bags of stone indeed anything portable which rosy may assist in tho the hoped for dt destruction ruction the whalers chalers mako make all hulate and splendid cunning in getting between he whales and the open soll nea their beel of all manner of craft I 1 then boo gradually closes a upon the karkor par kor or drove directing by the splendid maneuvers of the different boats the iha pour course of tho the whales to a shallow buy bay so Soffy ospert rt are these shetland haycra in arising that a signal of whalon IA seldom lott lost it if time la 11 KNOB for forming the 1 drive wall 01 ol outside the drove lithe if the whales once enter nl r the l hoson bay their pur per ra rm oin to ki clo rov quarters and ill i t alie ill avins fleeing ti it 1 1 13 3 ting ll it v v vj ill di f r to mi for tile z it 11 a 0 i r HI 04 17 a pir f wal A t n 1 I rutn to ahr lh r filled 10 U hit bu isred led knee aiu ill thou ft dp J I 1 no w di ia IP ih ihor ar forti at suit aud lb ib howling I 1 j hOlit ilig 1 alna of the I 1 water R ter discharge of 0 firearms fire firo arms stone atone t h rom g and rushing to and fro of at tho the equally desperate de whales form as aa exal excl ling a scene as 09 one ever bitne snot outside a genuine field of battle occasionally a few break through the line and cape abrill the school it Is doomed one dr yen into heal where hero thoy can only flo florinner inner in mighty sl or high and dry on land where they often to tos in their mad efforts to their butchery batch cry holcli 1 li always a savage and I 1 sickening slight proceeds with wonderful adful d dispatch in this ihli moody bloody work tho the hardy and powerful shetland women take taho a gleeful an aej 1 almost frenzied fronz lod part CHIRP the cliff I 1 led industry astry of I 1 abo be murl always bo be that ahat of fishing cod ing and herring are taken tito the boats formerly used wore or an clent six oared boat Of about 2 CO 20 foet feet kool and I 1 at AC how bow and stern stem but tho the great loss ot of life in 1891 1881 which occurred in tho the ilan bianc or olnee soa sea fish ing with ath loni long linos alnis in which ten boats went down rind and 54 5 ermen perished paved the way for the adoption of the large decked boata boat in a of this thin series fr lf on the tha herring fisheries of scotland cod and ling fishing ji t extensively prosecuted prosecute 4 many of the shetland smacks going an aawar far as the faroo faroe island rod to iceland the number of those two arlot lei les in was representing a weight of pounds when ft hen cured and dried moro more then one third or of this class of fishing for all scotland for tho the same year in general cc however bo wilver shetland e a annually annu ly produces fully one half to tile total catch of scotland Cn tho the shetland crofter differs little in character arid and environment from th tho e scottish crofter of tho the north and west shore sho tho mainland lie Is a god fearing rugged honest simple follow fellow with scarcely other olber than the tha two impulses of being in living and right ming if ho he possesses faults they are arc inherited rather than acquired nis Ills sodden fatalism despite his almost fierce religious faith la is the outcome of those curious superstitions of all only comly races lacoa living alongside the material relies relics and remains of pagan progenitors and his lil apparently oay going nature na liiro which cheerily coltom plates most of the burdens of honio alf alfo and croft toll filling upon his faithful 8 poulo Is 1 tha traditional one existing among all seafaring people tbt islands being blud deeply epply indented elih u ith or ar Ws of tho the boa the i rolls aro are generally situated nituna d along the of these croft comprise florn three to ten acres of amablo land with wilh bill pm ture in common the latter fit known herons hero as talL 1 pron pronounced oil need bythe by tho no tive tives S but the land Is reck conod by so many marks alun the merk being six an old noro nore coln coin worth about thus a 5 mork croft a 20 mork mark croft tf tc tire tho labox rathor rather than tho the sire of the croft aning thus indicated dica td tuo the truck system sy item that barbarous iniquity still prevalent in rome portions of our own country milah formerly kept Shet landers in precisely tho like same rame ablio rent condition of slavery as a that suf suffered fored by ilia minors miners of Parin sylvent 16 indiana and I 1 illinois ligols having a few years since been extirpated frone bh etland of by the ibo same british sentiment which fixed fair rents for scottish crofters geuL rally the shetland fiodor crofters aro are prosperous pro porous aud and content upon thel r bit bits of land as the result of their labor labo r upon the crofts and in fishing for every ry shetland peasant Is as both lisher a and nil crofter at each croft home homa will be found a few sheep groat great ducks of geese mccae often a cow and the stumpy little shetland pony and cart the ponies are very hardy wondrously sure footed and being as ai much companions as beasts of burden r aro re left pretty much to the freedom of th their e ir own m villa ills when lot required for use THE CARll CARRl irRl FR thera ponies aro are of conran used in till all manner of carrying capacities like tho the little donkeys of the azores but on jr r connects them in tho the th thought or ight with peat carrying you ran can hardly turn your eyes upon any road or pathway in shetland of without somo bore seeing an fn a shelia lid pony half hidden under treat great straw p pannier 1 ft lera or mansios mays ios as 83 the natives c call a inn them gol n g for or re turning with post while the she dand guld wife or maiden jos jogs along in company knitting with an almott almost savage arid and energy but bud there Is another carrier hero here that does almost alet the work of the shetland pony ahat 11 hat is the woman AlIthe AN the manuro manura tor for the iho crofts croft comprising thousands thou sandi of tons ton of gathered seaweed tho the millions of 0 f lith fish in tho the operations 0 of landing landl nf and curing and a larro large portion ponton of tile tho peat la Is car earned ried tint not on ponies back backs but on tho the backs of women in tho universal bartile LaR tile of the islands this Is a creel me rondo do of twisted and woven straw ilk alko the tha mayN Jes 11 jt it ta 19 also written calo and its in pronunciation Is best indicated 1 ollea ted in the 11 polling or biblo ki blo shetland Shet lAud women step oil off ir brorn 70 to 60 pounds weight in their ashem kas k bios tint knit knit knit forever and forber 1 ahat I hat Is the principal burden for there li 14 DO wood fuel in I 1 a shetland t nearly all tho the blehi interior surface of the islan islands Is consists of wild dreary dattald cat or I 1 stoat eal roos common for pasture as well wall as for post peat and froni from tho nine tenths of fit tho the sh hot at landers secure their fuel supplies aupp lles for peat cutting la in shetland A long narrow spade with wl in a sharp iron edge and a an n iron plate some seven inches long placed at right angles Is used peal banks banksjr or beds be are generally three post peat lengths lu in depth suit aud tho the size SIM of tho as the peat spade Is called determine the iho alzo of the tho peat hen cut carti block Is about on 0 foot long six or in phrot broad and about three antho thick tho the peats are then laid in rows on the bank like un unbaked baled brick for tho the firlit drang after ang for three weeks they are then raked ral wd that Is stood ou oil ends in small plies piles for complete drying leading r the peals Is taking them home in tho the maestos may on the ponies poni os backs or la in tho the ka kasales kash les 0 on tho the backs when they as aro e usually stacked the cables cabins for winter use USA as aa on the scottish mainland OLD RELICS the stranger will stin still find many curious and interesting rol lesof aides days day and ways in shetland helland te the ancient hiis village or tollit toi in of sound two miles fro from lerwick Is A veritable not nest of odd old 11 d folk arid and things tile tho inhabitants liqua piqua po sassing the exact spot pot 0 of I 1 ground oo on their ancestors ancestor dwelt dwell for more I 1 han a thousand years they show tin line scorn for 1 oo pta le lorwick in tho the oft quoted couplet I 1 sound whon arwick wea nano be b fined watto h in duni and aho sound elvon still lerwick on saturdays days bilth ther their kaffl on their backs backal their knitting in full flail swing and their cops no high in lofty lefty contempt waiting on one another until all ahre ro done gone with their errands or shopping ad D then returning to sound hound thoom iho cm of haughty toleration tho the old implements of 1 ibur fiber and ancient al 01 continue in some quarter you vou hill sill red won clad jn in jackets acl rind add trouser reaching a little ins be tow low the jonee of r roughly 0 tanned sheepskin the tu large larg b aln I 1 lit bonnets of tho the tarn tam variety or 01 their head and fret jo in Ir lyllas the ibo pita pal gootas of the halt half naked wretches gretchea chea of tho the irish arran islands con biting of 0 oblong pitches of rawhide tied over the loot feet with thongs thoin the tha hair lit li not next the foot and the ablo and sadei only are arc covered tho the an a t T ins or fire cire toner frequently a 1 41 20 va pounds 1 hof imin Is universally cut with tile tho sickle blom threshed th v with ith tho the flail and winnowed win by bring being tossed tob aed in the breeze breein tho the old wooden harrow Is common crooked wooden plough aro are still soon on many pos boosa ems tho the quorn or stone fiand mill as 34 old od na its arlan arao history hf story and little huts of water malli here larger are girled about by rude wh wheels 0 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