96 S/. Kildafrom Without. 



" naked " from bed " by force and put upon a horse 

 where I fainted dead away" she was carried to 

 Huskre, a little island off Skye. The poor lady must 

 finish her own story : 



" On the 14 of Jun : John Macleod and his Brother 

 Normand came with their galley to the Huskre for 

 me they were very rud and hurt me sore. Oh alas 

 much have I suffer'd often my skin mead black and 

 blew, they took me to St. Kilda. John Macleod is 

 call'd Stewart of the Island he left me in a few days, 

 no body lives in it but the poor natives it is a viled 

 neasty stinking poor Isle I was in great miserie in 

 the Husker but I'm ten times worse and worse here." 

 And yet she writes earlier in her long letter " He was 

 my idol ! He told me he loved rne two years or he 

 gott me and we lived twenty five years together few 

 or non I thought so happy ! ! " 



Lady Grange seems to have been about eight or 

 nine years in St. Kilda before she was allowed to 

 return, and then only to die soon afterwards in 

 banishment, scarcely less complete, in Skye. 



In many ways the solitary little group is of ex- 

 ceptional interest. 



Antiquarians and students of men and manners 

 may find subject for congenial speculation in the 

 doubtful origin of the inhabitants and their four- 

 horned sheep, and the identity of their patron Saint, 

 unnamed in any calendar : and may read a curious 

 illustration of the almost infinite gullibility of 

 humanity in the story of the imposter Roderick 

 begun by Martin and finished by Macaulay who, 

 towards the end of the seventeenth century for six 

 years or more, ruled supreme in the island, robbing 

 the men wholesale, and debauching the women in the 

 name of St. John the Baptist and the Virgin Mary. 



