Clan Gillean

184 The Clan Gillean.
until he was within three miles of Inverary. As
soon, however, as he had heard that Montrose was
so near him, he fled from his castle, entered a
fishing boat, and sailed off to the Lowlands, both
for safety and assistance. Montrose proceeded to
Kilmartin near Loch Crinan. There he met John
Muideartach with a drove of 1,000 of the fattest
cows that he was able to pick up in the districts
traversed by him. He now divided his army into
brigades. He sent Alister Mac Coll and his
followers in one direction, and John Muideartach
and those who had been with him, in another
direction. He kept the Atholl men and others with
himself. We are told that Glenorchy, Inveraw,
Auchinbreck and other places in Kintyre were
plundered, and that 895 of Argyll's followers
were slain. The fact is that the invaders went
everywhere among the Campbells plundering,
burning, and slaughtering. About the 26th of
January, Montrose called in his predatory bands,
and marched by way of Connel Ferry to Inver-
lochy, and thence to Kill-Cummin, now Fort
Augustus, where he halted on the 29th. At
Inverlochy he was joined by Sir Lachlan Mac-
lean of Duart, who had come with about twenty
men to meet him. At Glengarry he was joined
by Angus Macdonald, son and heir of Don-
ald Macdonald of Glengarry. On the 31st a
messenger came to him from Allan Cameron of
Lochiel stating that Argyll had entered Loch-
aber plundering, burning, and laying waste the