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Rannsachair Astràilianach a rugadh anns an Eilean Sgitheanac...

Date c. June 1953
Track ID 4867
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1953.106.B4

Original Tape ID

SA1953.106

Summary

An Australian explorer born in Skye.

Angus MacMillan was born in Glen Brittle in Skye. About 1820, at the age of nineteen, he left for Australia on the Minerva. He worked on a farm and during a very dry summer he entered an area no white man had been in before, to find new grazing for the cattle. He was met by a native tribe who had bows and arrows fixed on him. To show them he came in peace he offered them beads.

Item Notes

Transcribed in the School of Scottish Studies.

Item Subject/Person

MacMillan, Angus

Language

Gaelic

Genre

Information

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Fair