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their last possessions at Foyers on Loch Ness in 

 the following manner : the bride of Gruer Mor of 

 Portclair went forth, as was then the custom of 

 newly married women, to receive the presents of 

 her friends. At Foyers she was grossly insulted 

 by Laurance Grant, and the matter being reported 

 to her husband, he at once started to punish 

 the offender, sailing from Portclair with several 

 galleys full of fighting men. Grant and his clan 

 rowed out to meet them, when a desperate fight 

 took place in the bay to the west of Foyers, to 

 this day known as " Camus Mhorbh Dhaoine," 

 " The Bay of the Dead Men." 



Grant was eventually defeated, pursued, overtaken 

 and slain, at Ruidh Laurais, " Laurence's Slope," 

 above Ruiskich, and Gruer seized and retained 

 Foyers. The clan Ic Nian at that time held castle 

 Urquhart, and long and stoutly they and the Mac- 

 donalds of Glenmoriston fought against the Grants 

 and the men of Strathspey, whom they roused to 

 fury by surprising and slaying a small party of 



