Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 3 I 3
for her maintenance, and that he was to give
her to any one who might be sent for her, as
her presence in Skye and the mainland was
known. Accordingly, on the 14th of June, a
sloop arrived at Heskar, with a letter to Mac-
donald from the Laird of Macleod, who was now
to have charge of the lady, in consequence of an
agreement among the neighbouring chiefs ;
and she being put on board by the crew, with
great rudeness, the vessel put off. Macdonald
had told her that he knew not where she was
going ; but two Macleods who accompanied
her, said she was going to the Orkneys. This,
however, was said to deceive her, as her real
destination was the distant island of St Kilda.
That island, or rather barren rock, is situated
in the Atlantic, upwards of twenty leagues
from the nearest part of the Long Island, and
was then the property of the Laird of Macleod.
Being on all sides perpendicular, there is but a
single landing place on it, and that a shelving
rock ; so that landing can only be effected with
great risk, on account of the breakers, and
the tremendous swell of the sea at all seasons.
The natives are, however, very dexterous in
managing boats as they approach.
The surf on the shore was so awful, that