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Extract from the Inverness Courier, 1838, reporting on the arrival of an emigrant agent. Extract from a letter to the Secretary of State for Scotland by the fishermen of Fraserburgh, 1888. Verses from Jamie Raeburn’s Farewell, a traditional song from the point of view of a man being transported. "It was early one morning, just by the break of day…". Photograph of crofters’ houses on the Isle of Harris, circa 1930. Evidence given by a church minister to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, 1844.