Help to decipher handwritten occupation on shipping list please

[fyremoon]

Greetings all, and happy new year!

I'm trying to find when my ancestor George Mackay arrived in Canada - some time between 1871 when he was seen in the Scotland census and 1875 when he marries in Toronto - so looking through all the shipping records I can find.
He was a stonemason/builder by trade in any of the records I've found so far, so that's one of my clues.
I've found one or two possibilities but in this incoming passenger list (for the St David) I cannot make out what the attached occupation is supposed to be.
Can anyone help?

Thank you

[Sandrafamilytree]

Is there a way of displaying a bigger section of the document, so the writer's handwriting/letter formation could be compared with other words on the page?

[Milliepede]

Acrobat

[goldie61]

Sandra is right.
We need a much bigger section of the page to compare the letters in this snip.

[fyremoon]

Hi All, thanks for your replies. Here's a bigger snippet of the passenger list to compare. I have another possibility I'm leaning more towards, but I can't even READ this one, so I'd appreciate the help!

[Karen McDonald]

Oh, dear. This is all a bit of a mess, isn't it?! 

The first name (Grafferty George) should probably be around the other way. Whatever - at least we have a comparison for the "Geo." bit of your man's name. and can see that the "o" is very different in both cases. The scribe was not very consistent...

As for the occupations, I am stumped. Should the one in the middle perhaps be "Traveller"? The one above your man looks like "Spit" or "Spint", but that is highly unlikely! 

Looking at what appears to be "Martin Alexander", I would say that the mystery occupation starts the same way. Whether that is indeed "Al" or just "A" is anybody's guess.

And it appears to end with a "t".

 Maybe Milliepede is right with "Acrobat"!

There were (at least) three of them with the same profession. Can the other 2 be found anywhere else? (Benne[n]t and whatever the final name says. James something. Although I first read James as Jesus. )

[Tickettyboo]

You said this was an arrival passenger list. Have you checked for a departure list which may be easier to read?

Boo

[ajm314159]

I looked at other entries on this page (
https://www.ancestry.ca/sharing/1022931?token=ccb9074e5a8767fb04185868e08867c0db6f98aeccd9467ec115f270bd45fcd3). (Aug 1872).

I think “Spint” is short for Spinster which appears elsewhere written in full. 

I think “Traveller” is right.

I also thought “Acrobat”.  I can't unsee it now! It doesn't appear elsewhere that I could find so it's a bit unusual, at least.  There are pages and pages in this clerk’s hand.

[fyremoon]

You said this was an arrival passenger list. Have you checked for a departure list which may be easier to read?

Boo

I wish I could! I wasn't able to track one down, and now I don't have access to an Ancestry subscription to follow it up further.