Historical and genealogical account of the Clan Maclean

8 HISTORICAL NOTICES.
only for the violence done against his own per-
son, but for the death of Mackinnon. Lachlan
moreover demanded, as a condition of future
friendship, that his powerful (but now humbled)
captive should there swear his consent to bestow
on himself the hand of the lady Margaret, his
daughter, and that he should also use his influ-
ence with Macleod of Lewis to obtain the hand
of a daughter of that chief for his brother Hec-
tor ; to all which the mighty Lord of the Isles
found himself obliged to consent, But the bold
and imperious Maclean had .not yet done :
" I shall have your daughter," said he, " yet it
is but meet you should give her a dowry.'*
" Speak out, and let me hear the final of your
demands," exclaimed Macdonald. " Earnisceir le
Cuid Eleinain," (Enisker* with its isles,) replied
Lachlan. This was conceded to him, as well as
"the next post of honour in peace and war," which
he likewise demanded. Thus was established a
powerful union in the Isles, which in some years
afterwards, as will be hereafter shown, proved
a source of serious annoyance even to the very
throne of the kingdom itself.
* To account for the pre-eminence thus given to the small
but towering rock of Enisker, it may be necessary to mention
that it occupies a central position in the sea, and commands
an extensive view of the large isles by which it is surrounded ;
apt to suggest the idea of a monarch sitting on his throne,
ready to exclaim in the fulness of his pride, " I am lord of all
I view."