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5th June 1909. As the mail gig was expected to
call for me at 6.40 I breakfasted about 6.15!
but tho' [though] all ready the post never arrived till
7.20 giving us an anxious interval as there seemed
no other means of escape from Durness, the hotel
being in ruins from fire & there being no traps
except perhaps the blacksmith's, for hire.
The gig bore one other passenger & with my
my luggage & H.M. Mail there was no room
for anyone else. It is a rough trap for a long
journey but the driver is a character and the
time passed pleasantly enough. Occasional
stops at shepherds' cottages & at Rhiconich,
followed by an odour of whisky showed that
the 'post' was a not unwelcomed visitor.
It was a glorious morning and as the road
wound past lakes fringed with beech-trees
and under the shadow of great mountains
bare of any vegetation near the summit and covered with
boulders standing high through the heather
on their flanks or perched on the skyline
of their lower ridges I greatly enjoyed it. At
Laxford Bridge about 11.0 I left the gig &
found a motor from Scourie awaiting me.
At Badnabay about 300 yds. N by W [North by West] of
the cottage and within 50 ft. [feet] of the road to Scourie

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