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20 CONFLICTS.
a fierce and cruel conflict. The Sutherland-
men chafed John Mackay his van-guard, and
made them retii-e to himfelf where he flood in
battle array; then did he feleO: and chufc a
number of the ableft men in all his hoft, and
with thefe he himfelf returned again to the
confli6t; leaving his brother Donald to con-
duel the reft, and to fupport him as neceflfity
O^iOuld require. Whereupon they do begin a
mors cruel fight than before, weii foughten on
either fide. In end, after long refiftance, the
Sutherland-men obtained the vi£lory -, few of
thefe that came to renew the fight efcaped,
but only John Mackay himfelf, and that very
hardly. Niell Macean-Macangus of Aflint
was there flain, with divers of his men.
There were 216 of the Strathnaver-men left
dead in the field, befides thofe that died in
the chafe. There were fiain of Sutherland-
men 38 Not long thereafter John Mackay
fent William and Donald, two brethren, with
a company of men, to invade John Murray,
with whom they met at a place called Loch-
Salachie in Sutherland; after a (harp ficirmifh,
both the chieftains of the Strathnaver-men
were flain, with divers of their men, and the
reft put to Plight: neither was the viclory plea-
fing to John Murray, for he loft, there, his
brother, called John Roy-Murray. Thus con-
tinued the inhabitants of thefe countries in-
feiling one another with continual fpoils, un-
till the year of God 1522, that Alexander
C^ordon (Earl Adam his eldeft fon) overthrew
John