22 THE HIGHLAND CLEARANCES. 



prospect of a visit from the trustees to arrange matters with 

 them. They are hopeful that important concessions may be 

 made to them, and if these hopes should not be realised, 

 they appear to be animated with an unflinching determination 

 to stand by one another, and, shoulder to shoulder, agitate 

 for the redress of what they firmly maintain to be great and 

 serious grievances. 



Dr. MARTIN'S ESTATE. 



We have left ourselves but little space to speak of the 

 condition of affairs on the estate of Dr. Martin. This 

 estate is one which is of great interest to Highlanders. 

 Borreraig, one of the townships in revolt, was anciently 

 held rent free by the MacCrimmons, the hereditary pipers 

 of Macleod of Dunvegan. The principal grievance com- 

 plained of by the crofters may be briefly stated. The 

 crofters are required to sell to the laird all the fish they 

 catch at a uniform rate of sixpence for ling and fourpence 

 for cod, and we have actually been informed of a case 

 where some one was accused at a semi-public meeting of 

 interfering in a sort of clandestine way with the doctor's 

 privileges by buying the fish at higher prices. The 

 crofters were also required to sell their cattle to the doctor's 

 bailiff at his own price. A man spoke of his having some 

 time ago sold a stirk to a foreign drover, and was after all re- 

 quired to break his bargain with the outsider and hand over 

 the animal to the bailiff. This bailiff was, however, dis- 

 missed last Whitsunday, a fact stated in defence by Dr. 

 Martin's friends. Tenants are also required to give eight 

 days' free labour each year to the laird, failing which to pay 

 a penalty of 23. 6d. per day ; and while thus working, we 

 were informed that if any one by accident broke any of the 



