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cnAP. neighbours, and could not be induced to join the confederacy■ XI11 ' ■ against him.* Those chiefs, on the other hand, who livedinsurrec- nearer to Inverary, and to whom the name of Campbell hadtlie" clans long been terrible and hateful, greeted Dundee eagerly, andthecamp- promised to meet him at the head of their followers on thebens. eighteenth of May. During the fortnight which preceded thatday, he traversed Badenoch and Athol, and exhorted theinhabitants of those districts to rise in arms. He dashed intothe Lowlands with his horsemen, surprised Perth, and carriedoff some Whig gentlemen prisoners to the mountains. Mean-while the fiery crosses had been wandering from hamlet tohamlet over all the heaths and mountains thirty miles roundBen Nevis; and when he reached the trysting place in Lochaberhe found that the gathering had begun. The head quarterswere fixed close to Lochiel’s house, a large pile built entirelyof fir wood, and considered in the Highlands as a superb palace.Lochiel, surrounded by more than six hundred broadswords,was there to receive his guests. Macnaghten of Macnaghtenand Stewart of Appin were at the muster with their little clans.Macdonald of Keppoch led the warriors who had, a few monthsbefore, under his command, put to flight the musketeers ofKing James. Macdonald of Clanronald was of tender years:but he was brought to the camp by his uncle, who acted asRegent during the minority. The youth was attended by apicked body guard composed of his own cousins, all comely inappearance, and good men of their hands. Macdonald ofGlengarry, conspicuous by his dark brow and his lofty stature,came from that greatvalley where achain of lakes, then unknownto fame, and scarcely set down in maps, is now the dailyhighway of steam vessels passing and repassing between theAtlantic and the German Ocean. None of the rulers of the

* Memoirs of Dundee; Tarbet to Melville, 1st June 1G89, in the Lcvenand Melville Papers.