LEAVES FROM A GAME BOOK. SPT 



under whose management it would appear the deer have 

 increased both in quantity and quality, as at the present 

 time the usual average kill is about 100 stags, showing 

 a mean weight of 15 stone clean. This property in its 

 earlier days was one of the strongholds of the powerful 

 Macdonnell sept, under whose sway the hills and valleys 

 of Knoydart saw much clannish warfare. At the present 

 time the district is so peaceable and so sparsely populated 

 that the last recorded bloodshed still dates back to 1745, 

 when a sergeant of a party of the King's forces, scouring 

 the district in search of fugitives from Culloden, killed a 

 crying child in front of its mother's eyes, merely to curry 

 favour with his officer, who was annoyed by the sound. 

 The father of the murdered child, vowing vengeance, 

 pursued the party, and having escaped after killing by 

 mistake a prisoner purposely mounted on the officer's 

 horse, he yet stuck to his purpose, and again coming up 

 with the detachment, he shot the officer dead and once 

 more beat a safe retreat. 



This district is further remarkable as having been 

 the scene of the wreck of one of the Armada, and 



