A few slight alterations in the letterpress have been necessary, to correspond with changes that have taken place in the islands; but otherwise the contents are identical with those of the original issue.

Pilgrim’s Place House, Hampstead.

March, 1914.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[PREFATORY NOTE]5
[NOTE TO SECOND EDITION]6
CHAPTER I[INTRODUCTORY]11
CHAPTER II[HISTORICAL]22
CHAPTER III[FORMER INDUSTRIES]40
CHAPTER IV[THE FLOWER INDUSTRY]51
CHAPTER V[DESCRIPTIVE AND ARCHÆOLOGICAL]61
CHAPTER VI[THE ISLAND FOLK: THEIR WAYS AND CUSTOMS]80
CHAPTER VII[STORIES OF THE WRECKS]97
CHAPTER VIII[ANNET AND THE SEA-BIRDS]109
CHAPTER IX[ST. MARY’S]117
CHAPTER X[TRESCO]140
CHAPTER XI[BRYHER AND SAMSON]152
CHAPTER XII[ST. AGNES]159
CHAPTER XIII[ST. MARTIN’S AND ITS NEIGHBOURS]169
CHAPTER XIV[CONCLUSION]178
[LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO]185
[INDEX]187

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[CROMWELL’S CASTLE, TRESCO]Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
[THE OLDEST INHABITANT]14
[ST. MARY’S POOL]20
[THE GARRISON GATEWAY, ST. MARY’S]32
[CROMWELL’S CASTLE, FROM CHARLES’S CASTLE]36
[A GREY EVENING IN SCILLY]44
[A FIELD OF ARUMS]52
[A COTTAGE FLOWER-GROWER, TRESCO]58
[THE GIANT’S PUNCH-BOWL, ST. AGNES]66
[ST. MARTIN’S PIER]74
[CRAB-POT-MAKING BY ST. AGNES CHURCH]76
[A FLOWER-BARROW, HUGH TOWN]82
[DAFFODILS ON ST. MARTIN’S]90
[OLD CHURCH, ST. MARY’S]98
[SUNSET OVER SAMSON]104
[A SHAG PARLIAMENT]110
[THE ENTRANCE TO HUGH TOWN, FROM THE OLD PIER]118
[PICKING FLOWERS BY THE CASTLE ROCKS]128
[MONK’S COWL ROCK, ST. MARY’S]134
[GIMBLE BAY, TRESCO]148
[ARMOREL’S COTTAGE]156
[A FLOWER-HOUSE ON ST. AGNES]162
[ROUND ISLAND, FROM ST. HELEN’S]174
[OFF TO ST. MARTIN’S]180
[MAP OF THE ISLES OF SCILLY]10