A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, Volumen2,Parte1Sir John Scott Keltie Fullarton, 1875 |
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Página 76 - The Highlanders are divided into tribes, or clans, under chiefs or chieftains, as they are called in the laws of Scotland, and each clan again divided into branches, from the main stock, who have chieftains over them. These are subdivided into smaller branches of fifty or sixty men, who deduce their original from their particular chieftains; and rely upon them as their more immediate protectors and defenders.
Página 87 - This celebrated chief has been traditionally described as " a well-tempered man, in body shapely, of a fair piercing eye, of middle stature, and of quick discernment.
Página 76 - Highlanders in opposition to the people of the low country, whom they despise as inferior to them in courage, and believe they have a right to plunder them whenever it is in their power. This last arises from a tradition that the Lowlands, in old times, were the possessions of their ancestors.
Página 76 - He is their leader in clan quarrels, must free the necessitous from their arrears of rent, and maintain such who by accidents are fallen to total decay. Some of the chiefs have not only personal dislikes and enmity to each other, but there are also hereditary feuds between clan and clan which have been handed down from one generation to another for several ages. These quarrels descend to the meanest vassals, and thus sometimes an innocent person suffers for crimes committed by his tribe at a vast...
Página 80 - This custom was termed hand-fasting, and consisted in a species of contract between two chiefs, by which it was agreed that the heir of one should live with the daughter of the other as her husband for twelve months and a day. If, in that time, the lady became a mother, or proved to be with child the marriage became good in law...
Página 57 - Before the right side of the car is seen the snorting horse ! the high-maned, broadbreasted, proud, wide-leaping, strong steed of the hill. Loud and resounding is his hoof : the spreading of his mane above is like a stream of smoke on a ridge of rocks. Bright are the sides of...
Página 76 - Next to this Love of their Chief is that of the particular Branch from whence they sprang ; and, in a third Degree, to those of the whole Clan or Name, whom they will assist, right or wrong, against those of any other Tribe with which they are at Variance, to whom their Enmity, like that of exasperated Brothers, is most outrageous.
Página 95 - Macdonalds' regiment retreated, without having attempted to attack sword in hand, Macdonald of Keppoch advanced with his drawn sword in one hand, and his pistol in the other; he had got but a little way from his regiment, when he was wounded by a musket shot, and fell. A friend who had followed...
Página 6 - In larger Farms, belonging to Gentlemen of the Clan, where there are any Number of Women employed in Harvest- Work, they all keep Time together, by several barbarous Tones of the Voice ; and stoop and rise together as regularly as a Rank of Soldiers when they ground their Arms. Sometimes they are incited to their Work by the Sound of a Bagpipe ; and by either of these they proceed with great Alacrity, it being disgraceful for any one to be out of Time with the Sickle.
Página 5 - The property of these Highlands belongs to a great many different persons, who are more or less considerable in proportion to the extent of their estates, and to the command of men that live upon them or follow them on account of their clanship out of the estates of others. These lands are set by the landlord during...