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An
island on which the population was forcibly established
amid inauspicious circumstances is now enjoying a period
of prosperity.John MacLeod visits a community which
lacks only a cemetery.
Scalpay's
busy North Harbour: the island owes much of its present
prosperity to the late and gifted Captain Roderick Cunningham,
head of the locally based coastal shipping-company
The
MV Canna backs away from the Kyles-Scalpay slip, wallowing
a little before puttering purposefully towards the Scalpay
jetty. I stand forward on the car deck, watching her
bows surge towards the Scalpay terminal. Apart from
myself and my cycle she is carrying only a small van
and a truck ladden with telegraph poles. The crossing
takes less than three minutes. Her crew do not even
trouble to raise the ramp on such a calm day.
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