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old Lady Mclntosh and others at a window whom he did not give himself 

 time to speak to tho' they seemed desirous of it. From thence he directly 

 went towards Moy where the Pretenders son promised to meet him. On the 

 way he met Lord John Drummond, Major Kennedy and some other officers 

 who told him that the Pretenders son had taken the road towards the 

 McPhersons country and sent a quartermaster of Fitz-James's and four troopers 

 to shew him the road. He lay that night at one Fraziers near a factor's of 

 Lord Lovats and the next morning by break of day went to the said factors 

 where he found Lord Lovat Captain Shea Captain Bagott and some other 

 officers, who told him that the Pretenders son had desired them to surrender 

 but had left a note with Lord Lovat directing him to go to Fort Augustus 

 there to pick up what people he could and make a stand. He got there about 

 eleven o'clock that day and found nobody except five or six people who told 

 him that the Pretenders son was gone forwards towards Lochgary's house. 

 At a house a little above Fort Augustus he met the Pretender's son's cook and 

 one of his footmen and Sullivan's dark who told him he would overtake him 

 at Glangary's. He went thither and found Monsieur Mirabell a French 

 engineer an Irish physician and a priest. They told him that the Pretender's 

 son had left word for him to follow him to Scothouse of Knoidart. From 

 thence he went to Lochiels where he lay that night. The next morning he 

 met old Lochiel Mr McLachlan Mr Maxwell and Lord Elcho who accom- 

 panied him to Kinloch Moidart where they met Eneas McDonald the banker 

 who brought him a note from the Pretenders son directing him to joyn him at 

 one Donald Roy McDonald in Aresaig which he did next day along with one 

 Danil McLeod who served them as a pilot afterwards and is now a prisoner on 

 board the Furnace. There was with the Pretender's son in Aresaig Sullivan 

 John Hay and one Allan McDonald a priest and now a prisoner. They staid 

 there till the next day about six o'clock in the evening when Sullivan the Pre- 

 tender's son and himself embarked in an open boat for Stornway. The night 

 proving bad they were obliged to put into Rushnish in Long Island where 

 they staid some time and made a second attempt for Stornway. But the 

 weather still continuing bad, they was forced into Scalpa and went under the 

 name of Sinclair a ship-wrecked merchant ; Sullivan passed for his (the 

 Prince's) father. There they was five or six days and sent Danil McLeod 

 their pilot to Stornway to bargain for a ship to carry them to the Orkneys. 

 They travelled from Scalpa to the Lewis which they crossed on foot twenty 

 five miles to Stornway where they found that McLeod had got drunk and 

 discovered them, so that the people of Stornway were riseing in arms appre- 

 hending they had brought a number of men with them ; which obliged them 

 to lie in a moor all night two miles short of the town. Then they proposed 

 going in their open boat to the Orkneys but the sailors who were with them 

 haveing run such risques some nights before by the badness of the weather 

 would not venture it ; upon which not knowing what to resolve they em- 

 barked on board their boat and went southwards. In their passage they met 

 two English men of war which obliged them to put into an uninhabited 

 island where they remained four days having no provisions but some dried 

 fish which they found on the rocks. They went from thence still southwards 

 and were chased by a sloop of war in amongst the rocks off the Harries where 

 they remained three hours till she was gone, when they ventured out and went 

 to Benbicula where they remained at a poor man's house three days. From 

 thence (by this man's advice) they went to Corridale a mountain in South 

 Uist where they remained near a month in a shciling of one McGachans 

 and were subsisted by him and some of the people of the country during that 

 time. While they was there the Pretender's son sent Capt O'Neille with a 

 second son of Clanronald's, a Capt in Lord John Drummond's to the Lewis to 

 endeavour to get a ship in which Capt O'Neille was to go to France with a 

 letter to the King, and he was directed to give the King a distinct account of 

 everything that had happened from his arrival in Scotland till the day he left 

 the Pretender's son and was recommended to the King as a person who would 

 give an impartial account of everything. He finding it impracticable to get 



