Barrowsgate

Tag: Travels

  • The Gentle Warrior – Darling of Otaheiti

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    The subject of this story, published in the Buchan Observer in September 1936, is Ernest William Darling, who became famous as a result of meeting the novelist Jack London in Tahiti and was the subject of London’s own story “The Nature Man” published in an American magazine in 1908. According to London, Darling had studied…

  • Scant O’ Yird

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    Another view of Barrowsgate’s recent talk. The parson had invited the world-traveller to speak at the Helpin Club but he exhausted the audience with his endless tales. The verse ends with “When the Potter was casting his brain, he was very short of clay”.

  • Jeems, Entertainer

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    Barrowsgate is invited by the minister to give a talk about his travels to a large audience gathered in the local school hall . He is thrilled to be introduced as “a blether o’ the first watter”.

  • Trials of Traveling

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    Barrowsgate explains why travelling light is the best policy.

  • Canadian Emigrant 1908

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    Jim’s apparently autobiographical story “A Canadian Emigrant” was serialized and published in four parts as “A Colonist in Canada Twenty-Five Years Ago” by “Hugh James” in the Bon Accord in May and June 1934. Jim revised it and it was published again as “Call of the Golden West – Recollections of Thirty Years Ago” by…

  • Burns Abroad

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    With Burns night (25th January) approaching, Barrowsgate wonders whether the Scots fully appreciate just how influencial and loved he is the world over. He ends with his own verse of appreciation, “Nane Ither”. Places mentioned in the article (which Barrowsgate had apparently visited) are the Chilcoot Trail in British Columbia, San Francisco and Visalia in…

  • Some snake

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    This is an interesting piece, published in the Mearns Leader newspaper under the name “Hugh James” (i.e. his first names reversed). Barrowsgate appears to have only used this nom de plume a couple of times in total. It is an early example of Barrowsgate’s later approach, where he recounts a story which was very likely…