This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... the quarrel that thus I retarded was postponed altogether by a circumstance that changed the whole course of our adventure in this wild country, --severed us at a sharp wrench from the Campbell regiments, and gave us the chance--very unwelcome it was--of beholding the manner of war followed by Alasdair ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... the quarrel that thus I retarded was postponed altogether by a circumstance that changed the whole course of our adventure in this wild country, --severed us at a sharp wrench from the Campbell regiments, and gave us the chance--very unwelcome it was--of beholding the manner of war followed by Alasdair MacDonald's savage tribes. It happened in a flash, without warning. No blow had been struck by the two gentlemen at variance, when we were all three thrown to the ground, and the bound prisoners of a squad of Macgregors who had got out of the thicket and round us unobserved in the heat of the argument. They treated us all alike--the bard as curt as the Campbells, in spite of his tartan, --and without exchanging any words with us marched us before them on a journey of several hours to Kilcumin. Long or ever we reached Kilcumin we were manifestly in the neighbourhood of Montrose's force. His pickets held the road; the hillsides moved with his scouts. On a plain called Leiter-nan-lub the battalion lay camped, a mere fragment of the force that brought ruin to Argile: Athol men under the Tutor of Struan, Stewarts of Appin, Maclans of Glencoe, a few of the more sedate men of Glengarry, Keppoch, and Maclean, as well as a handful of the Gregaraich who had captured us. It was the nightfall when we were turned into the presence of Sir Alasdair, who was sitting under a few ells of canvas playing cartes with some chieftains by the light of a firroot fire. "Whom have we here?" said he, never stopping for more than a glimpse of us. "Two Campbells and a man who says he's bard of Keppoch," he was told. "A spy in an honest tartan, no doubt," said Sir Alasdair; "but we'll put it to the test with Keppoch himself: tell him to come over and throw an eye on the fellow...".
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