This is an argument of some value in support of the theory that they were the original colonists of the wild islands of the coast of Scotland.

A schooner laden with oranges was wrecked upon one of those islands a few years ago, and the gentle savages rendered the captain such willing assistance that he gave them as many oranges as they wanted.

Next day he asked them how they liked them.

They shook their heads and said: "Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn't things for a hungry man to hanker after." We went down the glen after supper.

It is beautiful--a mixture of sylvan loveliness and craggy wildness.