House of Argyll and the collateral branches of the clan Campbell, from the year 420 to the present time

90 THE CLAN CAMPBELL.
attended, according to the custom of the times, with
sixteen of his clan in armour, took the church of Killi-
nure in his way in order to hear mass. There he saw
M'Martin with a number of his followers also armed.
The misunderstanding between them gave Sir Dugald
reason to conjecture that mischief might ensue after
the service, to avoid which he moved before it was over
with his party, but was pursued by M'Martin and his
followers, and overtaken by them midway between the
Ford of Achinacraw and Kintraw, in Craignish, at a
rivulet on the top of a mountain, where an obstinate
conflict ensued, in which M'Martin was killed in the
Ford of the Water, which has since gone by the name
of Aw-vic-Martin, or M'Martin's Ford. Fingula, the
wife of M'Martin, was in childbed of her only child, a
son, when this unfortunate event happened, and was so
shocked with it that she fevered and died. But her
brother, Sir Dugald, being much moved at the unhappy
catastrophe of M'Martin's family, took his infant
nephew under his protection, and sent him to be
nursed with his uncle, nicknamed MacKath, or Fortu-
nate Son, from being one of the richest tenants on the
estate, and who then resided on the farm of Barri-
chebean. This M'Kath having gone to cut some harrow
pins in a wood on the muir of that farm, his dalt, or
foster son, young M'Martin, then only ten years old,
followed him, and they, having rested on the bank of a