‘On the 12th of July the St Magnus carried us northward to the Shetland Islands. We had a moderately placid sea, but as immoderately tumbling boat; nevertheless it was a passage keenly enjoyed.’
“Mr Cursiter showed me, in his collections, two large burial urns of steatite, one quite perfect, the other complete in form but reduced almost to a shell. These had been taken from Mounds in the islands. “
‘My meditations near the Ring of Brogar were momentarily interrupted by an Orcadian peasant. “Can you point out to me,” I asked ” The ring of Bukan?”
Sheriff Substitute Brown said that there had been ‘a disgusting amount of lying going on’.
“This tale goes back to a day of dense fog on18th July 1934, while the Stronsay herring fishing was at its height”
“there has been almost incessant wind”
