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residence at Kiloran and escaped to the hills. As they were 

 retiring over Beinn-a-Sgoltaire they heard the wails of 

 Macphee's wife herself a daughter of Lochbuie who was 

 being maltreated by the M'Leans because she would not tell 

 them where her husband was hiding. Macphee exclaimed to 

 his servant : " Good were your promises to her the day she 

 gave you these trews," pointing to those that his servant 

 had on, "that you would see no harm come to her." 

 " Unlucky is the time that you remind me of it," answered 

 his henchman ; " if I and the black dog were with you we 

 would defy them; but I will now return, and I shall be 

 slain, and you shall be caught also." Macphee, retiring to 

 the cave in question, which is open at both ends, set his 

 black dog at the one end while he took his stand at the 

 other, and both so well defended their respective posts that 

 it was only by opening a hole through the roof that the 

 M'Leans were able to get at them. This cave ever since 

 has been called Slochd-dubh-Mhic-a-Phi. 



Bogha-Mhic-a-Bhastair a rocky islet, almost submerged 

 at high tide, on the western side of Kiloran Bay is said 

 to have been named after one of Macphee's servants, who 

 landed on it to abstract an arrow with which he had been 

 pierced by his enemies while endeavouring to escape from 

 them by swimming across the bay. He pulled the arrow 

 out of his body, and swam over to Port Easdail; thence 

 walked to Port Olmsa, where he got a boat with which he 

 crossed the channel to Jura, and so escaped. 



Place-names l and fragments of legendary lore would in- 

 dicate that in former times raiding parties, who, judging by 

 the sequel in some cases, did not always fare well at the 

 hands of the inhabitants, sometimes landed at Kiloran Bay. 



1 It has been asserted that the places in Balanahard had formerly 

 been so well named in detail that the people without difficulty could 

 apportion the land out as they sat on Cnoc-a-Chreagain "yes, even to 

 the breadth of a ' caibe ' handle. " 



