112 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



his good management, the number of the slain was 

 worked up to fifty or fifty-five stags of the same 

 very heavy weight. 



It was in this forest that Cluny Macpherson hid 

 for so long in the time of the Pretender, as for nine 

 years after Culloden he laid low in huts, caves and 

 vaults in this district, while during all that time a 

 heavy price was placed upon his head. A good part 

 of these years of concealment he passed on Ben Alder 

 in a singular natural retreat known as " The Cage," 

 and here, when Prince Charles Edward escaped from 

 the Western Isles, he was entertained by Cluny for 

 some three months as well as circumstances would 

 permit. 



When the Prince arrived in Ben Alder he was 

 actually in rags, but his devoted host soon put matters 

 right for him, Charles Edward then passing his spare 

 time in the study of Gaelic ; while, as he had for com- 

 panions both Cluny and Cameron of Lochiel, whose 

 trusty Highlanders kept them well supplied with the 

 necessaries and even some of the luxuries of life, it is 



