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under the leaves of an old birch tree overhanging
a burn & seated on its bent stem eat the remains
of my lunch which I had brought from Scourie
and being refreshed soon found a track that
showed the wear of human feet & following it
round the hill side was delighted to find the
road much sooner than I expected. On through
the rain I trudged reaching Drumbeg about 7.30.
expecting to find numerous fishermen and
a table d’hôte dinner. A small temperance
hotel with a farm attached and no visitors
was what I found. The good landlady,
Mrs. Mackenzie, while getting dinner ready
produced a pair of dry knickers and stockings
as my luggage still tarried at Kylesku. The
fishing here does not seem to be any better
than that of Scourie, Kylesku, or other
places but the hotel is modest, comfortable
and inaccessible.

8th June 1909 Drumbeg. Wrote my journal as
soon as I had had breakfast & had the
dog-cart round at 10.30 to start. It was
a day like yesterday, misty & wet. We drove
first to Oldany & with the permission of
Mr. Simpson the shooting tenant, my driver
young Mackenzie, procured the boat and

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