INVERNESS-SHIRE. 9r 



without a glass when it was necessary to use one to 

 find his companions. 



It is not possible to write of Achnacarry without 

 recalling to mind scenes of strife and warfare, both 

 historic and clanish. For nearly two centuries the 

 Camerons and the Mackintoshes were at bitter 

 enmity, and countless were the combats, large and 

 small, that took place between these rival clans. 

 The renowned Sir Ewan Cameron had a great deal 

 to do with gaining the battle of Killiecrankie, as 

 before the fight commenced he went round to his 

 men individually, exacting a promise from each to 

 conquer or die, and the rush of the Lochaber men 

 was the decisive moment of the day. The hero of 

 so many fights died in his bed at the age of ninety. 

 Of this chieftain tradition relates that, being over- 

 taken by darkness on a winter's day while crossing 

 some hills when on a warlike expedition, as he 

 and his followers laid themselves down in the snow- 

 covered heather, he detected one of them making 

 a large snowball to serve him as a pillow, whereupon 



