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Note XXIX. 

 Stranaver, where a rude sort of inhabitants dwell, almost as barbarous 



as Cannibal*; who, when they kill a beast, boil him in his hide, make 



a cald/on of his skin, brewse of his body, drink of his blood, and 



bread and meat of his carcase. P. 209. 



It would seem, that so lately as the middle of the seventeenth 

 century., the inhabitants of Strathnaver retained the rude and savage 

 mode of cookery once proper to all Scotland. In Edward the Third's 

 reign, while the Scottish army forsook their camp at Stanhope-park, 

 in Northumberland, they left nothing behind them but three hun- 

 dred cauldrons, made of raw hides. ' ( They have no occasion," says 

 Froissart, " for pots or pans, for they dress the flesh of the cattle in 

 the skins, after they have flayed them off." In Derricke's Image of 

 Ireland, he gives the same account of the Irish commons which 

 Franck does of the inhabitants of Strathnairn. 



Well, beeves are knocked doune, 



the butchers plaie their parte, 

 Tho take each one the intrails forthe, 



the liver with the harte ; 

 And beyng breathyng newe, 



th' unwashen puddyngs thei, 

 Upon the coales or embers hotte, 



for want of gredyron laie, 

 And, scarce not halfe enough, 



(draffe serveth well for hoggs,) 

 Thei take them up, and fall therto, 



like ravnyng hongrie doggs. 

 Devouring gutte and limme, 



no parte doth come amisse ; 

 Whose lippes and chappes with blood doe swim, 



most true report is this. 



Long slabbers plucke thei forthe 

 instead of handsome knives ; 



