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    The Western Isles at Tarbet, Loch Nevis.2.15pm, 07/08/95~ The gentleman holding the mailbag is Donald MacDonald, postmaster and at the time the sole resident of Tarbet. He was born a mile west at Ardintigh in 1915.Tarbet was once a major centre of the herring fishery, and Donald's house was a busy inn, but the coming of the railway to the remote clachan of Mallaig in 1901 marked the start of Tarbet's decline into obscurity.
    Heading back to Mallaig.

3.30pm, 07/08/95
    Camp on Sgurr Mor, looking towards na Garbh Chriochan.

7am, 14/07/85