374 DEER DRIVEN INTO THE SEA. 



the waves, the shouting, and the rude melee must have 

 exhibited a scene little inferior in wildness of character to 

 the Indian mode of hunting on the Red Lake. 



Sir Robert Gordon states that this mode of hunting was 

 practised at the Pharo Head (the present Cape Wrath), 

 and adds, " There is another part in Sutherland, in the 

 parish of Loth, called Shletadell (Sledale), where there are 

 red deer ; a pleasant place for hunting with grew hounds : 

 here also, sometymes, they drive the deer into the South 

 Sea, and so do kill them." The second place thus alluded 

 to must have been the Ord of Caithness, as it is the only 

 part of Sledale forest where such singular means could be 

 put in execution. 



Besides sports of this animating description, the chase 

 of the wolf was followed, in former times, with consider- 

 able ardour. Some traditionary notices there are of the 

 destruction of the last wolves seen in Sutherland, consisting 

 of four old ones, and some whelps, which were killed about 

 the same time, at three different places, widely distant 

 from each other, and as late as between the years of 

 1690 and 1700. Indeed, some of these detested prowlers 

 continued to ravage the Northern Highlands, till the dis- 

 appearance of the pine forests deprived them of retreat 

 and shelter. The last survivors of this rabid race were 

 destroyed at Achumore, in A&synt, in Halladale, and in 

 Glen-Loth. 



The death of the last wolf and her cubs, on the eastern 

 coast of Sutherland, was attended with remarkable circum- 

 stances. Some ravages had been committed among the 

 flocks, and the howl had been heard in the dead of night, 

 at a time when it was supposed the villanous race was 



