Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

HISTORICAL NOTICES.
appear that an ascendant influence had somehow
or other been obtained by the chief of Maclean
(Lachlan Lubaneach) at the court of the Lord of
the Isles, which gave rise to a considerable deal
of discontent amongst the other courtiers ; the
most inveterate of whom was the master of the
household, the chief of Mackinnon, who, on the
occasion of a stag hunt to which Maclean and
his brother Eachuinn, or Hector Reganeach of
Lochbuy, had been invited, plotted with others
to have them cut off. The brothers being ap-
prised of the design, the intentions of Mackinnon
were frustrated. After the chace was over the
Lord of the Isles embarked in his biorlinn (yacht)
for his castle of Ardtornish in Morvern, but some
little matters detained his master of the house-
hold for an hour or two behind him. In the
meantime Maclean and his brother mustered a
few followers, and determined on punishing
Mackinnon for his contemplated treachery ; they
overtook him as he was entering his galley, and
there dispatched him ; they instantly disarmed
his party, and, manning his galley with their
own men, followed in pursuit of Macdonald
himself, with whom they made up within a few
miles of Ardtornish, captured his vessel, and
carried him prisoner to I-Colum-Kill ; where they
forced him, sitting on a certain stone (called the
Black Rock of Iona) held sacred in those days
for purposes of the kind, to vow indemnity, not
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