dressed as a man-servant, and now called Lewis Caw, crossed the water to Rasay. A very miserable picture has been drawn of his appearance at this time. Want of food and sleep, 'exposure to wind and rain, and the constant biting of gnats, had made him thin, pale, and haggard.

12. When it became known that Flora Macdonald had aided the Prince in his escape, she was taken to London, and put in prison for a year. She was then released; and a number of ladies, favourable to the Stewarts, presented her with the sum of £1,500. Afterwards, having married the son of Kingsburgh, she emigrated with her husband to North America; but the war there induced them to come home, and they both died in Skye.

13. After leaving Rasay, Charles hid himself on the mainland. The country was covered with soldiers in search of him; and on one occasion he was so hemmed in by a line of sentinels, that for two days he lay or crawled among the heather, not daring to light a fire. It was only by creeping at night down a rocky gorge, which a torrent had worn during the winter floods, that he managed to escape from his dangerous situation.

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14. Soon afterwards he reached a cave among hills, in which seven robbers lived; and during the three weeks he spent with them, he might any day have been betrayed for the sake of the £30,000 which the Government had offered for his arrest. These men, however, though their calling was dishonest, were not base enough for such conduct. Instead of betraying him, they fed him, and even ventured into Fort Augustus for newspapers and information. One day they brought him, as a royal gift, a cake of gingerbread.

15. At last the Prince managed to join two of his devoted adherents-Cluny and Lochiel- of whom the latter was wounded in the leg; and then the royal wanderer, though still far from safe, found better food and greater ease. The first thing he did on meeting them was to run to a saucepan, and, snatching a silver spoon, to devour with wolfish haste the meat which had been simmering on the fire. "Now," said he, "I live like a Prince."

16. While perched with Cluny and Lochiel in a den on Mount Benalder, which was called the Cage from the fact of its being hung almost in mid-air.

he heard the joyful news that two French vessels, which had been sent to carry him away, had come to anchor in that very arm of the sea at which he had landed fourteen months earlier. The news brought a great number of fugitives to the place; and there, with about one hundred others, Prince Charles set sail from the land He never saw Scotland

Sept. 20-29, 1746

A. D.

of his defeat and peril.

2 Portree'. The chief town in the south of Inverness-shire, between Loch island of Skye, on the east coast.

Laggan and Loch Ericht.

34. THE ROCK OF THE RAVEN.

[1. The ruined castle of Invergarry1 stands on a rock on the banks of Loch Oich, Inverness-shire, close to the confluence of the river Garry with the lake. The crag

on which it is built was the ancient gathering-place of that branch of Clan Colla called the Macdonells of Glengarry, and gave its name, "The Rock of the Raven," to the slogan or war-cry of that 'formidable tribe.

2. At the commencement of Prince Charles-Edward's rash enterprise, the Prince spent a night there in August 1745. Once again Charles slept in that castle, but in sadly

changed guise, for it was on the morning after the fatal fight of Culloden. A few days afterwards the deserted fortress fell a prey to the destroying army of Duke William of Cumberland.2 Its strength resisted in some measure the flames with which it was assailed, and the blackened and ivy-clad 'bulwarks still rear themselves grandly over the blue waters of Loch Oich.

3. It appears that the chief of Glengarry himself took no part in the rising, nor did his elder son, who was absent in France. The younger son was the leader, and the intended scapegoat for the family ; but the Government was too irritated to attend to distinctions of so doubtful a character, and, accordingly, in the succeeding vengeance, the Macdonells of Glengarry suffered bitterly for their disaffection.

4. In 1794, the Macdonells were formed into a Government corps, under the command of their chieftain; but this regiment being 'disbanded in 1802, the principal part of the clan removed to Upper Canada, where they have given to many scenes the same beloved names as those borne by the glens of their fathers. The remnant of these Macdonells live peaceably in their old locality; nor is there in all Scotland a more interesting or beautiful district than that of Glengarry.]

1. Beware of Macdonell, beware of his wrath!

In friendship or 'foray, oh, cross not his path!
He knoweth no bounds to his love or his hate,
And the wind of his 'claymore is blasting as Fate.
Like the hill-cat that springs from her lair in the rock,
He leaps on his foe-there is death in the shock;
And the birds of the air shall be gorged with their
prey,

When the chief of Glengarry comes down to the fray,
With his war-cry, "The Rock of the Raven!"

2. The Eagle, he loveth dominion on high,

He dwells with his kindred alone in the sky;
Nor heedeth he, sailing at noon o'er the glen,
The turbulent cares and dissensions of men.

But the Raven exulteth when strife is at hand,

His eyes are alight with the gleam of the brand; And still, when the red burning cross1 goeth round, And gathers Clan Colla at fortified mound,

The first at the tryst is the Raven!