Life of Flora Macdonald and her adventures with Prince Charles

unfortunate Highlanders were fired at by the soldiers placing
their muskets on erect stones, which are still left standing as
monuments of this most heart-rending cruelty. Donald
Macleod, an intelligent, enterprising man, was at the time in
Inverness, loading a vessel with meal for Skye, and other
places on the West Coast. Owing to Donald's knowledge
of the Western Isles, he so far yielded to the Prince's wishes,
as to promise that he would accompany Banker ^Eneas
Macdonell to Barra, to bring to his Royal Highness whatever
money or despatches might have been left for him in that
island.*
These proposals of the Prince with Galtrigal were not,
however, put into execution, as, soon afterwards, the bloody
engagement at Culloden took place, and nothing more was
heard of Donald Macleod until the meeting of the Prince
with his adherents at Borrodale, when his Royal Highness,
as already stated, expressed his determination to resort to
the Western Isles. In the midst of their deliberations
Macdonell informed the Prince that Donald Macleod, whom
he had seen at Inverness, had fortunately arrived with his
vessel at Kinlochmoidart, and that of all men he knew, he
would be the most suitable for conducting the intended
cruise to the Hebrides. Chambers states that "a message
was sent to Kinlochmoidart, where Donald now was,
pressingly desiring him to come to meet the Prince at
Borrodale. Donald immediately set out, and, in passing
through the forest ofGlenbiasdale, he encountered a stranger
walking by himself, who, making up to him, asked if he was
Donald Macleod of Galtrigal? Donald, instantly recog-
nising him notwithstanding his mean attire, said, " I am the
same man, please your Highness; at your service ". "Then,"
* The reader will find an account of Donald Macleod's character, and his
history, in the Celtic Magazine, No. 19, Vol. II., 243.