Lairds of Glenlyon

VI.
WHEN Dundee fled from the Convention, " Coll
of the Cows," the head of the M'Donalds of Kep-
poch, was pursuing with relentless fury the broken host of
the Mackintoshes, his ancient foes, and was, on the arrival
of the Viscount in the north, threatening to sack Inverness.
On receiving a large sum of money from the town, as com-
pensation for alleged injuries, Coll and the citizens were re-
conciled through the intervention of Dundee, and both joined
in supportingthejacobite interest. An attemptwas made to
include the Mackintoshes in the general reconciliation, but
Coll rated his friendship at such a high value as to render
the attempt abortive. The Keppoch Chieftain was so en-
raged at the refractory spirit of Mackintosh, that, with the
forced connivance of the high-souled Graham, he drove away
all his cattle, mostof which werekeptamonghisown retainers.
When Coll took such liberty under the eye of an energetic
general, whose dearest plans were thereby put in peril, how
could he be controlled by the weak, unpopular Cannan ?
Soon after the battle of Killiecrankie, several of the clans
left the white standard to go to their several homes with
the spoils gathered during the campaign. Coll of Keppoch
left with his own men, and the M'lans of Glencoe, his con-
federates, in October. Determined to gather their winter
mart in going home, and aware they could not do so with
any propriety or hope of success in the land of the Robert-