468 HISTORY OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES. 



Captain Ferguson's ship in Applecross Bay. General 

 Campbell, who was then with Ferguson, demanded from 

 Donald whether he had been with Charles, and received a 

 reply in the affirmative. Asked if he knew that a reward 

 of 30,000 was on the head of the Prince, which would 

 have made him and his family happy for ever, the old 

 sailor protested that if he had got the whole of England 

 and Scotland for his pains, he would not have permitted a 

 hair of his head to be touched, if he could have helped it ; 

 his conscience, he said, would not have allowed him to enjoy 

 the money for forty-eight hours. The General was fain to 

 admit that he was right, but he warned Donald that if he did 

 not tell everything he knew about the Prince, " Barisdale's 

 machine " (to which he pointed) would wring a confession 

 from him.* The threat was not put into execution, nor, 

 we may be sure, did Donald tell more than he could help. 

 He was sent to London, but was released on loth June, 1747. 

 In acknowledgment of his faithful services to the Prince, he 

 was helped by Bishop Forbes ; and in commemoration of 

 the famous voyage from Borradale to Rossinish, Mr. John 

 Walkinshaw of London presented him with a silver snuff- 

 box suitably ornamented and engraved ; a memento which 

 the old pilot carefully cherished to his dying day. 



Ned Burke, after parting from the Prince, skulked in North 

 Uist for nearly seven weeks, during twenty days of which 

 period, he had nothing to eat except dulse and shellfish. He 

 latterly found refuge in a cave, where a friendly shoemaker's 

 wife brought him food at night. Ultimately, he made hi 

 escape, and ended his days in Edinburgh as a sedan-carri( 



Captain O'Neil, whom we left in the company of Angi 

 Macdonald of Milton, joined Sullivan, who had remained 

 in South Uist. About two days after O'Neil had parted 

 from Charles, a French vessel, with 120 men, arrived at 

 the island for the Prince. Sullivan immediately went 



* This was a machine used by that disreputable blackmailer, Macdonald of 

 Barisdale, for extorting confessions of theft. It was made of iron and stood 

 upright. The culprit's head, neck, hands, and feet were put into it, and he 

 was placed in a sloping position so that he could neither "sit, lie, nor stand." 

 Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. XVI., p. 429. 





