20 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



of Glenfruin in 1603, when they were led by their 

 chief Alexander Macgregor of Glenstrae. 



For this the Macgregors were outlawed, Alexander, 

 their chief, was taken prisoner and treacherously done to 

 death in Edinburgh. Tradition tells that some years 

 prior to the death of this gallant man, his son, while 

 out after deer one day in the Black Mount, met the 

 young laird of Lamond travelling from Cowal to 

 Inverlochy, and togecher they dined at a house lying 

 between Tyndrum and King's House. During the 

 evening they quarrelled, dirks were drawn on both 

 sides, when Macgregor was killed, whereon Lamond 

 fled, hotly pursued by the attendants of the young laird, 

 but outrunning his pursuers, he reached the house 

 of Alexander Macgregor, the very man whose son 

 he had just slain, and without mentioning what had 

 happened, he so earnestly begged protection, that 

 the chief pledged him his word that whatever he had 

 done, no harm should befall him as long as he was 

 with him. Then arrived the pursuers to inform 

 the father of the true state of affairs, but Alexander, 



