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rach'd,” “ Black Duncan of the Hood,” so called from 
having been the last. person of his rank who bore the 
old Highland hood in Argyllshire, and who lived in 
the reign of James VI. (1567-1603). 
Several traditions relative to Wolves are evidences 
of the accuracy with which oral relations have been 
transmitted through many generations, which is 
exemplified by the familiarity and fidelity with which 
they retain allusions to objects and customs disused 
for two hundred years. 
An example of this occurs in an account of the 
slaughter of a remarkable Wolf killed by one of the 
lairds of Chisholm in Gleann Chon-fhiadh, or the 
Wolves’ Glen, a noted retreat of these animals in 
the sixteenth century. 
The animal in question had made her den ina 
“cirn,” or pile of loose rocks, whence she made 
excursions in every direction until she became the 
terror of the country. At length the season of her 
cubs increasing her ferocity, and having killed some 
of the neighbouring people, she attracted the enter- 
prise of the Laird of Chisholm and his brother, then 
two gallant young hunters, and they resolved to 
attempt her destruction, For this they set off 
alone from Strath Glass, and having tracked her 
to her den, discovered by her traces that she was 
abroad ; but detecting the little pattering feet of the 
cubs in the sand about the mouth of the den, the 
elder crept into the chasm with his drawn dirk, and 
began the work of vengeance on the litter. While 
he was thus occupied, the Wolf returned, and infu- 
