The tail of the Beagle, ship! ahoy! wagged in the dogwatch /
MacGregor, John,1825-1892.
[Castle Wemyss? : privately printed],
1865.
Privately printed for John Burns, afterwards Lord Inverclyde. The book describes a cruise in the Western Isles of Scotland in 1864, taken from a log kept by the philanthropist, barrister and traveller John "Rob Roy" MacGregor. In 1864 MacGregor was invited by his friend and fellow philanthropist John Burns to join the inaugural voyage of the screw-steam yacht "Beagle" which had just been built for Burns's shipping company. MacGregor and Burns were members of a party of eleven men, the "Beagles", who enjoyed an eleven-day trip starting from Burns's home Castle Wemyss on July 26, up to Lewis, then back again.
Rob Roy is a pseudonym for John MacGregor.
Privately printed for John Burns, afterwards Lord Inverclyde. The book describes a cruise in the Western Isles of Scotland in 1864, taken from a log kept by the philanthropist, barrister and traveller John "Rob Roy" MacGregor. In 1864 MacGregor was invited by his friend and fellow philanthropist John Burns to join the inaugural voyage of the screw-steam yacht "Beagle" which had just been built for Burns's shipping company. MacGregor and Burns were members of a party of eleven men, the "Beagles", who enjoyed an eleven-day trip starting from Burns's home Castle Wemyss on July 26, up to Lewis, then back again.
Includes an undated manuscript note which appears to be in MacGregor's hand: "Dearest Cary, I am clearing up finally at Comyn[?] House - & don't think the "Beagles" should go on sale, so send it to you! ...". The back pastedown has a newspaper cutting on the the loss of the Beagle.