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Fir à Nis air an goid agus an reic anns na h-Innseachan.

Fieldworkers
Date April 1967
Track ID 36336
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1967.27.B1

Original Tape ID

SA1967.027

Summary

Men from Ness kidnapped and sold in the West Indies.

The contributor's great-grandfather was a skipper on a boat that fished out of Galson. The crew was kidnapped one day while out fishing and sold in the West Indies without anyone being aware of what had happened to them. One of the crew married a woman there who promised him that she would help him return to Lewis. He had been married to a woman from Borve before he had been kidnapped and on his return he saw his wife in North Dell. She had married again thinking that her husband had been lost at sea. The fisherman went away without revealing himself and returned to the West Indies.

Language

Gaelic

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good