Lord John Drummond, Major Kennedy and some other officers, who told him the Pretender's Son had taken the road towards the McPhersons Country, and sent a Quarter Master of Fitz James's and four Troopers to shew him the road; he lay that night at one Fraziers near a factors of Lord Lovats, and the next morning by Break of Day went to the said factors, where he found Lord Lovat, Capt Shea, Capt Bagott, and some other officers, Who told him 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 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 foot men, and Sullivans Clark, who told him he would overtake him at Glengary's; he went thither, and found Monsieur Mirabell a French Engineer, An Irish Physician, and a Priest; they told him the Pretenders 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 accompanied 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 Donald McLeod who

1 The Prince, after the battle of Culloden on April 16, crossed the river Nairn at the ford at Falie, and riding by Tordarroch, Aberarder, Faroline, Gortleg (where he met Lord Lovat), and Fort Augustus, reached Invergarry Castle early on the morning of April 17. That night he spent at Glenpean, and next day started on foot for Glen Morar. He remained in Morar on April 19, and walked to Borradale on the 20th. He remained there till April 26, when Donald Macleod piloted him to the Long Island.-Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 46.

2 April 17.

Cf. the He was made prisoner

3 M. Mirabelle de Gordon had come to Scotland with Lord John Drummond. Chevalier Johnstone's account of him in The Rising of 1745, p. 119.

early in May, 1746.-Scots Magazine, vol. viii., p. 238.

4 April 18.

5 This appears to add a detail as to the Prince's entertainment in Borradale from April Cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 47.

20-26.

6 April 19. But the real date must have been April 21, for that was the day on which Donald Macleod, who had been sent by Æneas Macdonald, reached the Prince. Journal gives the inaccurate date April 29 as that of his joining the Prince.

O'Neil in his

Cf. The Lyon,

vol. i., p. 367.

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 Allen McDonald a Priest, and now a Prisoner; they staid there till the next day1 about Six O'Clock in the Evening, when Sullivan, the Pretender'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 were forced into Scalpa,1 and went under the name of Sinclair, a Shipwrecked Merchant," Sullivan passed for his Father; there they were five or six days, and sent Donil 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 rising in arms, apprehending 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, having run such risques some nights before by the badness of the weather, would not venture it, upon which not knowing what to resolve, they embarked on board their Boat and went Southwards; in their Passage they met two English men of war, which

1 According to O'Neil's Journal (The Lyon, vol. i., p. 368) the Prince remained in Borradale " some days" before sailing. Donald Macleod, who arrived (with O'Neil ?) on April 21, had first to procure a boat, and the Prince's departure did not in fact take place till April 26. 2 O'Neil's recollection of events was clearly hazy. In his Journal (The Lyon, vol. i., p. 368) he says that the Prince, Colonel O'Sullivan and himself sailed "at eight at night".

3 April 27-29.-Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 48. It is noticeable that O'Neil says nothing here of the boat being staved to pieces on a rock. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 368, and Bishop Forbes'

note.

* In the early morning of April 30. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 166.

'The Prince's motive in taking the name "Sinclair" is not, so far as I know, elsewhere explained. Donald Macleod (The Lyon, vol. i., p. 166) mentions the fact, but gives no

reason.

"They remained at Scalpa from May 1-4, and arrived at Kildun House in Arnish early on May 5.-The Lyon, vol. i., p. 166. It may be noticed that O'Neil in his Journal (The Lyon, vol. i., p. 369) declares that he was sent to Stornoway to look for a boat.

* O'Neil makes the same accusation in his Journal, but cf. Bishop Forbes' note in The Lyon, vol. i., p. 369.

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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 mans house three days; from thence (by this mans advice) they went to Corridale, a Mountain in South Uist, where they remained near a Month in a Shieling of one McGachans, and were subsisted by him and some of the people of the Country. During that time While they were there the Pretenders Son sent Capt O'Neille with a Second Son of Clanronalds, a Capt in Lord John Drummonds, 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 every thing that had happened from his arrival in Scotland till the day he left the Pretenders Son, and was recommended to the King as a Person who would give an impartial account of every thing; he finding it impracticable to get a ship on account of the strict examination all Persons were obliged to undergo, returned towards Corridale, but was told on the way that the Pretenders Son had left that place on account of the Skye Militia being come into South Uist, and was gone to the Island of Fuya,' where he rejoyned him and staid there two days; from thence they went to Loch Boisdale in South Uist; in their passage

The island was Euirn or Iffurt, where they remained from May 6-9. O'Neil in his Journal gives their stay there as eight days. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 172.

2 They landed on an island in Loch Uskavagh on May 11 and remained "at a poor grasskeeper's bothy or hut" until May 14.-Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 50.

3"By the advice of a friend," says O'Neil in his Journal (The Lyon, vol. i., p. 370).

The name of Ronald Macgachan, the Prince's host, does not appear to be elsewhere mentioned (cf. Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 50, note 4, and supra, p. 69). O'Neil in his Journal correctly states that the Prince remained here twenty-two days, May 15 to June 5.

"This would appear to be Donald Macdonald who was later taken prisoner, and whose statement is in Enclosure iii. of Lord Albemarle's letter of December 16,|infra, No. CLXXXV. Lord Albemarle calls him "Young Clanronald".

6 O'Neil does not mention this incident in his Journal. On the contrary he says that "we"-clearly including himself-remained at Coradale for twenty-two days. Cf. The Lyon, vol. i., p. 370.

7 The Prince sailed to Island Ouia on June 6 and remained there till June 9.—Blaikie, Itinerary, p. 51.