Fishing
Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:
Story and note about eels, 24 June 1887
Story and notes about eels and dog-fish, 24 June 1887
Story and notes about fishing around St Kilda, June 1887
Story and notes about fishing around St Kilda [Hiorta] including that ''Traille' [tusk] can be found on the east side but not the west side of the island; that skate can be found on the north west side; that the informant once caught two sharks off St Kilda; that sharks were like dog fish: dark back and fair belly and that 'Lin[g]' are 'very large there'.
Story describing two lobsters caught by Donald Shaw, 10 March 1874
Story describing two lobsters caught by Donald Shaw, Eilean anabruich, at Loch Seaforth [Eilean Anabaich and Loch Shìophoirt both Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris], amongst the details the first lobster is described as being three feet long and the second as weighing six and a half pounds.
Story entitled 'An t-Eilean Uaine', 1873
Story entitled 'Great fight', March 1874
Story entitled 'Rocabarrai', 26 April 1872
Story entitled 'Rocabarraidh', 26 April 1872
Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1872
Vocabulary list including words for rheumatism, 1894
Vocabulary list including words for rheumatism 'Scainteach', 'Greim-loin' and 'Siataig', the first of these being attributed to Islay and the third to Lewis [Ìle and Isle of Lewis/Eilean Leòdhais]. The rest of the note reads 'Scanaport on the river Ness. Ca[thuil] = Catching fish [in] excise ink bottle.'