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chap, given little more trouble to the government, and that the rebelswould have perished obscurely in the -wilderness by one an-other’s claymores. But nature had bestowed on him in largemeasure the qualities of a statesman, though fortune had hiddenthose qualities in an obscure corner of the world. He saw thatthis was not a time for brawling: his own character for couragehad long been established; and his temper was under strictgovernment. The fury of Glengarry, not being inflamed by anyfresh provocation, rapidly abated. Indeed there -were somewho suspected that he had never been quite so pugnacious ashe had affected to be, and that his bluster was meant only tokeep up his own dignity in the eyes of his retainers. Howeverthis might be, the quarrel was composed; and the twochiefs met, with the outward show of civility, at the general’stable. *

Dundee What Dundee saw of his Celtic allies must have made him

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James for desirous to have in his army some troops on whose obedience

ance. he could depend, and who would not, at a signal from theircolonel, turn their arms against their general and their king.He accordingly, during the months of May and June, sent toDublin a succession of letters earnestly imploring assistance.If six thousand, four thousand, three thousand, regular soldierswere now sent to Lochaber, he trusted that his Majesty -wouldsoon hold a court in Holyrood. That such a force might bespared hardly admitted of a doubt. The authority of James wasat that time acknowledged in every part of Ireland, except onthe shores of Lough Erne and behind the ramparts of London-derry. He had in that kingdom an army of forty thousand men.An eighth part of such an army would scarcely be missed there,and might, united with the clans which were in insurrection,effect great things in Scotland.

Dundee received such answers to his applications as encou-* Memoirs of Sir Ewan Cameron.