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. 1906 Excerpt: ...barrack occupied by the private soldiers, which had not a newspaper as regularly as the 1798 commanding officers had theirs; and whoever of the inmates was esteemed the fittest to read, and explain to such as could not read for themselves, was employed to read aloud for the benefit of all. In this way passed their ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ...barrack occupied by the private soldiers, which had not a newspaper as regularly as the 1798 commanding officers had theirs; and whoever of the inmates was esteemed the fittest to read, and explain to such as could not read for themselves, was employed to read aloud for the benefit of all. In this way passed their evenings, not in "rioting and drunkenness;" and the money thus saved, was remitted for the benefit of their families and relatives at home.' As a case in point, we may mention that our own great-grand-father, Hugh Nicol, who served in the Bears from start to finish, returned home with a Bible which cost him three months' pay. That Bible, the reader may rest assured, is a treasured possession of the godly soldier's descendants. Of such men General Lake spoke truly when he called them "honest Reays," for ri ttchd tuasaid, i.e., breasting a conflict, Bible-loving lads may safely be trusted to do their duty in a tight corner. While the Reay Fencibles were serving in Ireland, another regiment of militia was raised in the shire of Sutherland, of which Eric Lord Reay was Hon.-Colonel. It went by the name of Sutherland Volunteers, but drew pay like an ordinary Fencible regiment as we gather from Macdonald's Journal, and continued in existence for some time after 1808. Of that regiment five companies were raised in the country of Strathnaver, viz., the Bighouse, Farr, Tongue, Durness, and Edderachilis companies. It seems to have swept into its ranks practically all the able-bodied men of these Reaypafem. localities, as the following quotation from a letter, dated 1798, from Mr. Anderson of Rispond to Captain Kenneth Mackay of Torbol, shows: --"By the way, I should think they must see little who do not see this country approaching ra...
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