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42 HIGHLAND PAPERS
hinder him in a strait pass that he had the goods to drive
throw, and he himself having gotten the pass befor anie
of his companie, and killing ane of ye inhabitants in ye
pass, John Du m'Chynnich vc wurchie being ye nixt that
came up of his companie offered to shoot him saying that
it was presumption in him to be so forward as to kill
men befor his men came up to him with all saying that
he loved not a captain that was swifter y n his shouldiers
in respect that if he were killed befor ye shouldiers came
up, that ye shouldiers might be overthrowen for laick
of a captain and if they were putt to a retreat he wished
his cap 1 not to have more speed then his shouldiers. At
last they wan ye pass and caried ye goods throw w* ye
loss of 16 of ye inhabitants.
Before this woyage to Morar M'Kenzie had putt all
Glenganie people from ye po°ne of anie part of Lochalsh
and Lochcaron excepting ye Strome Castle. Such of ye
inhabitants as submitted to himself he would cause them
try ther hand in the enemie's blood before he gave them
anie trust.
Alister M'Gorrie and Ronald M'Rorie 1 two spe a11 comanders
of Glengarrie's kin made ane onsett to Kenlochu
qr they mett a part of ye women and children of Lochcarron
w* some few of Lochcarron men that were convoy-
ing ther goods from ye enemie. They came to ym verie
timous, they suspecting no danger. They put manie of
ye women w* all ye male children to ye sword and houghed
ye goods qr they land them knowing themselves not able
to carie them alongs w* them.
Alister m'Gorrie made anoy r journey to Aplecross qlk
was spared be all his name as a sanctwarie 2 and he, hearing
1 See ante, p. 39, note 3.
2 The Gaelic name for ' Applecross ' is A 'Chomraich, the sanctuary. A
great religious house was founded there in the seventh century by S. Maelrubha,
whose name still survives in different forms connected with various places, of
which the best known is possibly Loch Maree. Among the ' maine enormities '
which distressed the Presbytery of Dingwall in 1656 was the reverence still
paid to his memory in the districts where he had laboured (Inverness and
Dingwall Presbytery Records, Scot. Hist. Soc, vol. xxiv. pp. xxxiii. 279-272,
and Dr. Mackay's notes).