Life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with Prince Charles

9*
he himself would conduct his Royal Highness to Kingsburgh
House, and that all would be right in the end.
"Oh," said her Ladyship, "how much I wish that my
dear, sterling friend, Captain Donald Roy were here at
this moment. I sent him the other day to Fladda-chuain,*
as I was told the Prince was expected to land there, and he
was supplied with shirts and other requisites for his comfort.
I hope that he has returned to Shalista, where he is a
patient of Dr. Maclean,t for the curing of his leg, pierced
by a musket ball in the battle of Culloden. He may now
be at home, let him get notice to come immediately."
Donald Roy was accordingly sent for, soon arrived on
horseback at Monkstadt, and found Lady Margaret and
Kingsburgh walking alone in the garden. By this time
they had less reserve, as Captain Macleod and his men
had gone on to Uig to visit their company of military
stationed there.
Lady Margaret was greatly cheered by the presence of
Donald Roy, though she could not help saying to him — " I
fear, my dear Donald, that it is all over with us, and that we
are ruined for ever."
" There is not the least fear of that, my Lady, take com-
fort, as all will succeed well," replied Donald.
* Fladda-chuain is an Island in the Minch about a mile long, and distant
about eight miles from the shore of Monkstadt. It is not inhabited, but
has usually a small hut in it, to afford shelter to fishermen, and to hunters
after wild fowl, which frequent it in millions.
+ Dr. John Maclean who resided at Shulista, about four miles from
Monkstadt, was celebrated as a surgeon over all the Western Isles. He
was reputed a very learned man, and deeply versed in the Greek and Roman
Classics. It has been said of him that he could repeat Homer's Iliad and
Virgil's JEneid from beginning to end. He possessed an endless store of
amusing anecdotes. He had two sons, one of whom was for many years
M.P. for a borough in England ; and the other Malcolm, a Captain in the
British army, who died, near Shulista, about forty years ago.