FATAL ACCIDENT. 147 



every time. It is still a bye-word in the country that " It 

 is not every day M'Intosh can hold his court." 



A fatal accident happened at Craigantsuidh, near Poll 

 Tarf, about sixty or seventy years ago ; and here follow 

 the particulars, as I have received them : 



Alexander Macgregor, a resident in Glen Tilt, was 

 travelling with two companions on the face of Craigant- 

 suidh, which is very rugged and precipitous. It was at 

 that time covered with snow, and sheets of ice were found 

 in various places, which frequently conducted to the ledge 

 of a precipice. In an evil hour Macgregor, unconscious of 

 the danger, placed his foot on one of these perilous spots, 

 which conveyed his body over a deep precipice, and his soul 

 to eternity. 



His two companions took his corpse into a shepherd's 

 hut, where they proposed leaving it that night, until they 

 procured assistance. 



The one said to the other, " Will you go to Felaar for 

 assistance, or remain all night with the body ? " He replied 

 he would go to Felaar for assistance. The Camerons were 

 there at this time in the capacity of foresters. He was 

 scarcely gone, ere the man who remained with the body, 

 was pelted with stones and turf, and other missiles, till he 

 was provoked to go out and see from what direction they 

 were thrown. On his going out they ceased ; but the 

 moment he re-entered, they began again with such increased 

 violence that he would have been stoned to death had he 

 not left the house. 



The country people attributed this attack to the omission 

 of leaving the door of the hut open to give a free passage 

 to the departing spirit. People will form their own con- 

 clusions on this and similar stories. I mention them as 

 evidence of the superstitious feeling that still pervades some 

 secluded spots in the north. 



In the year 1804, one, Duncan Robinson had a narrow 

 escape from the fall of an avalanche on Ben-y-gloe, but 

 (more fortunate than Macgregor) he saw the impending 

 mass of snow tottering above him, and threw himself under 

 a rock that was providentially by his side ; the vast volume 

 passed over him, and his life was thus spared ; but his dog 

 perished. 



