We fished ourselves, and yet more often made the geese to fish for us: observing one when he had made a capture and scaring him from his prey ere he had swallowed it.
The strange nature of this place, and the curiosities with which it abounded, held me busy and amused.

Escape being impossible, I was allowed my entire liberty, and continually explored the surface of the isle wherever it might support the foot of man.

The old garden of the prison was still to be observed, with flowers and pot-herbs running wild, and some ripe cherries on a bush.

A little lower stood a chapel or a hermit's cell; who built or dwelt in it, none may know, and the thought of its age made a ground of many meditations.

The prison too, where I now bivouacked with Highland cattle thieves, was a place full of history, both human and divine.