182 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
The place where the last Wolf that infested Mon- 
teith was killed is a romantic cottage south-west of the 
mill of Milling, in the parish and barony of Port.* 
“The devastations of Oliver Cromwell in the vast 
oak and fir woods of Lochaber are well known, and 
in 1848 the old people still retained traditions of the 
native clearances in the same century, when the 
great tracts south of Loch Treig and upon the Black- 
water were set on fire to exterminate the Wolves.’’+ 
In the Edderachillis district, forming the western 
portion of what is called Lord Reay’s country, a 
tradition existed to the effect that Wolves were at 
one time so numerous that to avoid their ravages in 
disinterring bodies from their graves, the inhabitants 
were obliged to have recourse to the island of Handa 
as a safer place of sepulture. t 
The Earl of Ellesmere, referring to an extract from 
the journal of his son, the Hon. Capt. Francis 
Egerton, R.N., written in India, and relating to an 
apparently well authenticated story of some children 
in Oude who were carried away and brought up by 
Wolves,§ says: ‘‘ It is odd that the same tale should 
extend to the Highlands. I got a story identical in 
all its particulars of the Wolf time of Sutherland from 
the old forester of the Reay, in which district Gaelic 
tradition avers that Wolves so abounded that it was 
usual to bury the dead in the Island of Handa to 
avoid desecration of the graves.” | 
* Nimmo’s “ Stirlingshire,” pp. 745, 750. 
+ Stuart, “ Lays of the Deer Forest,” i. p. 221. 
t Wilson’s “ Voyage round Scotland,” vol, i. p. 346. 
§ “ Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist.,” second series, viii. p. 153. 
