Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

154 MEMOIR OF ROB ROY.
a number of his people, and sent them, headed
by a confidential Graham, and accompanied by-
some military, to lay hold of Rob Roy; but he
chancing to be absent with his band, they
assailed his house during the night, and having
learned the course he had taken, followed, and
arrived by day-break next morning, at Crin-
larach, a public house in Strathfillan, where
our hero and his men had taken up their quarters
for the night — he in the house, and they in an
adjoining barn. The Grahams immediately
broke open the door. Rob Roy was instantly
accoutred to meet them, and levelled them man
by man, as they approached, until his own lads,
roused by the noise, attacked the Grahams in
the rear with such determination, that they re-
treated to some distance, leaving behind them
several of their party sorely wounded. Having
fortified his men with a glass of whisky, they
then ascended the hill towards the head of
Loch Lomond. The Grahams, expecting still
to obtain some advantages over them, followed
at a short distance, till the Macgregors shot
some of the military, and drowned one soldier
in a mill-dam, when the Grahams thought
proper to withdraw.
After this inglorious attempt to overcome