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student at the University of Glasgow, and that Torquil, 

 the third son, who had been bred by his uncle, Macleod 

 of Harris, was a youth of " great expectations." William, 

 the second son, appears to have died when a youth. No 

 trace of the descendants of Ruari or Torquil, if they 

 left any, can be found. Donald, the eldest son of Neil 

 Macleod, took refuge in England with Sir Robert Gordon, 

 with whom he remained for three years. He then seems 

 to have returned to Lewis, and taken part in the insur- 

 rection of 1616. Escaping from Lewis, he made his way 

 to Holland, where he may have joined Tormod Macleod, 

 who, it will be remembered, took service in 1615 with the 

 Prince of Orange. Of Ruari, the other surviving son of 

 Neil, there is no record subsequent to 1616; he may have 

 shared the fate of the sons of Ruari Og. 



Lewis was now in undisputed possession of the Mac- 

 kenzies, and no further attempt was made to resist their 

 domination. The Tutor of Kintail made certain repre- 

 sentations to his nephew and chief, Colin, Lord Kintail, 

 and offered in exchange for Lewis, to resign his title to 

 Coigeach and his other possessions on the mainland. 

 Kintail, however, refused to listen to these representations, 

 and the refusal resulted in a temporary estrangement 

 between uncle and nephew. But the Tutor's loyalty to 

 his chief proved equal to the strain, and friendly relations 

 were ultimately re-established between them. 



Thus ended the drama which was enacted in Lewis at 

 the close of the sixteenth, and the beginning of the seven- 

 teenth century. The fall of the Macleods of Lewis from 

 their high estate, and the extinction of the historic House 

 of the Siol Torquil, as a force to be reckoned with in 

 the Highlands, furnish an object-lesson to the moralist. 

 That retribution followed the misdeeds of the last Mac- 

 leods who ruled in the island, is in accordance with the 

 eternal fitness of things, if not in accordance with universal 

 experience. As they sowed, so they reaped. The hoary, 

 but not wholly unamiable sinner, Ruari the last chief 

 whose claim to Lewis was undisputed with the trans- 



