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and expelled the miserable inhabitants, old and young, without food or clothing, 

 to the hills. Several persons were murdered in cold blood, or shot through sheer 

 wantonness. About four hundred of the royal army having surprised a young 

 man of the name of Cameron with a musket in his hand, the unfortunate youth, 

 without any form of trial, was posted up and shot by an order from Grant, who 

 commanded a party of the Ross-shire militia. This, it is not improbable, was 

 as much the result of private antipathy as of political zeal, which too frequently 

 served as a mask for similar acts of violence. At this time, a difference in name 

 implied a difference in nature ; so that he who was not a Grant, or of some 

 other clan conspicuous for its loyalty, was marked as a rebel ; and, too frequently 

 it is feared, the mere difference of a patronymic, sufficed for the prompt 

 execution of feeble and inoffensive individuals. Dugald Roy Cameron, the 

 father of the unhappy youth, and witness of his death, kept a vigilant eye upon 

 the detachment as they returned to quarters with their plunder. In their pro- 

 gress towards the fort, either by accident, or, as it has been surmised, with the 

 well-founded apprehension that the avenger was not far distant, and that his 

 identity might at least be rendered doubtful by the change, Grant gave his 

 horse to Major Munro. Dugald having come up shortly after, and taken aim 

 at the rider without observing the change, the amiable Major fell mortally 

 wounded by the shot. In vain the soldiers attempted to capture the assassin ; 

 throwing away his musket, he scaled the precipices with a speed and deter- 

 mination known only to mountaineers ; and hastening to intercept them once more 

 in a narrow pass, hoped to accomplish, by a discharge of rocky fragments, results 

 still more fatal than that already caused by his musket. This, however, was 

 happily prevented by the delay and consternation caused by the death of Munro. 

 Cameron found no more victims that day, but the morning's disaster checked all 

 similar expeditions into Lochaber. Cameron was never discovered, and served 

 afterwards as a private in the royal army. 



On the western shore of Loch-Oich, where it receives the tributary stream 

 from Loch-Garry, is the modern residence of the Macdonell family distin- 

 guished for centuries as the chieftains of that name, and the leaders of a warlike 

 clan. Not far distant from the present mansion is the ruined Castle* of Invergarry 



by parties sent out for them. . . Great numbers of our men grew rich by their share of the spoil, which was 

 bought in the lump by jockeys and farmers from Yorkshire and the south of Scotland, and divided amongst 

 the men. . . few common soldiers were without horses. . . gold was also as common among great numbers 

 as copper at other times." Journal of a Medical Officer, London, 1746. 



* Invergarry was the first stage of Prince Charles's pilgrimage after his defeat at Culloden, and when 

 he had assumed his disguise a pilgrimage long continued, perilous in the extreme, and which nothing 



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