188 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



pursued them, until he headed the detachment, when, 

 as they came up to him, he at once shot the rider 

 of the white horse dead. He saw his mistake too 

 late, but escaping scot-free, he again came up with 

 his persecutors, when the officer, thinking that all 

 was safe, having resumed his horse, also paid the 

 penalty of his cruelty, and the injured father once 

 more escaped. 



In the time of the Armada one of the Spanish 

 ships was wrecked on the Knoydart shores, and to 

 this day there are a race of Catholics settled there, 

 who show all those well-marked peculiarities of 

 feature which belong to the Spanish race. 



FOREST OF MACDONALD, OR SCONSER, BROADFORD. 



This is an ancient forest of nearly 10,000 acres, 

 belonging to Lord Macdonald, and at present let 

 to Mr. A. H. Sharp, in whose rental is included 

 the wages of four keepers, all rates and taxes, and 

 the up-keep of the lodge. It is mostly rough, bare, 

 black, moorland ground, cut up by precipitously rocky 



