Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-05-10
Gales and Sketfbes.
fHI TWO PrPIRs OF DUxfReox.
STORIES OF SCOTCH DEVOTION.

against the windows of the upper story,
stands the castle OF Duntroon.
The traveller from Oban to Crinan has a
good view Of it as the steamer turns the
point and crosses into Crinan Bay: and il
is view which, if he has any love for
the wild and beautiful-any sympathy with
that strange Highland past. when men
fought and raved all their lives, never
resting till they died-he will not easily
turn from and forget. Perhaps he may
feel interested to inquire, Of one Of the
sailors, who built it: who chose to perch
his nest out there on the headland and de-
" the sea. And the man will answer
probably that it was just one Of the
Campbells," for from here it is no ''far
cry to Loeb Awe" the heart Of the old
Campbell country, if the Campbell coun-
try could ever have had heart. A
grasping, treacherous set, we are told
they we're. those Campbells who sold their
king to his enemies, massacred the Mac
Donalds at Glance, got possession I'M
worthily Of the lordship of Lorne, and
quartered the galley with their own
gyrons.
We may talk about them freely now,
for their own land knows them no more
through the length and breadth Of it,
where once no other name was heard.
scarcely one Of them bears rule to day
and remembering that, it is pleasant also
to remember some OF the noble deeds
they did while they were yet strong. How
Sir Neil companied with the Bruce, and
shared his wanderings and privations
how Archibald Of the Sour Countenance.
the GRIM old Puritan, ended his life on
the scaffold for the cause of Scottish Pro-
teltantism. and his son followed him by the
same rough road and how in later days,
John of Argyll and Greenwich gave ear
to the PRAYER OF Jeanie Deans.
For many century time has been
working away at those gray old walls of
DuntroOn, and sunshine and shade melt
softly into each other as we look mp at
them this morning. resting. after a long
row, upon our oars in the bay.
They were rough enough doubtless two
hundred years ago, when Col. Mcdonald,
the fierce left-handed warrior, came over
from Ireland to claim his inheritance in
Kintyre, taken from his father on account
Of rebellion, and gifted to the Campbells
by James I. Determined to be revenged.
he passed on through Argylshire, spar
iuS btlObEIne W tIc udltu udflit
After burning the Earl of Argyll's Castle
of Sween in Knapdale Coll sailed down
Loeb Sween round the point of Kells, and
up into Loeb Crinan. intending to do the
same at DuntroOn but being uncertain 40
To the strength OF Its garrison, he first
despatched his piper across the mountains
to Crinan with orders 10 gam admission
into DuntrOen Castle and bring him in
formation regarding it. When the piper
arrived, he was Hospitality received and
lodged as a stranger within the castle
yet, treachery being for some reason sus-
pected, he was not allowed to leave again
in the morning. but detained as prisoner
IN one of the turrets. Thence, after long
waiting, he saw his masters ships enter
ing the loch. What chance for him now !?
The poor piper! The suspicious of Dun
trOon are confirmed beyond doubt, and
his fate is not difficult to foresee: bnt
he does not think of himself The Camp
bells are on the alert. He must save his
master. And over the waters of the bav
sound out the notes of warning, COM
posed on the spur of the moment. yet not
to be mistaken in its meaning. Tradition
has joined TO the air these words, and
with the spirit of it they accord we'll:
"Co my love. keep from the tower. keep from the
Coll. my darling keep from the sound, keep from
the sound
am in ward I am In ward"
Macdonald heard; and. veerinc north
ward. landed his troops Mt the head of the
loch and led them through the valley of
kilmartin. burning. pillaging, and cattle
lifting up to the shores of Loeb Awe.
Some kind OF superstitious veneration for
religion" appears to have been in the
man. though his humanity does not allow
him to risk loss in endeavoring to rescue
his poor clansman, for we find him inn
media.ely afterward sparing Campbell
Auchinellan's corn and cattle because he
was in holy orders.
In the year l6H the Covenanters of
Scotland disgusted with Charles duplci-
ty. began the preparations for assisting
the disatfected party in England The
commander-in-cbief of the army they Of
Tered to Montfose. and made him acquaint-
ed with Hl the purposes of their Holy
Union" Montrose set out for the north,
and reached Durham in the beginning of
March lGii. There he found the Marquis
ut Newcastle, who rendered him all the
assistance in his power: and SO with an
army Of two thousand men he entered
Scotland on April H..
After various conflicts during the sum-
NOR, quitting Aberdeen. Montrose turned
back to Badenoch. where he was Joined BY
Macdonald. but hearing that Argyll was
ut Dunkeld trying to detach from him his
faithful Athollmen. he made one of his
rapid movements forward-twentv miles
through the deep November snow which
covered them in the mountain passes up to
the knee-and was once again in Atholl.
to the astonisment of his friends. while
Argyll fled at his approach to the Cove
nanting garrison at Perth.
II was now the middle OF December;
there was no fighting to be done. and
Montrose's little army must find winter
quarters. Where? The low country was
strongly garrisoned. the north was a will
derness, the east had proved itself hostile.
He determined TO step westward and carry
fire and sword through Argyllshire. BY
the middle of December. marching as his
men were well accustomed to march now.
he was within two miles OF Inverary Cas-
tie. The lord oft. who had travelled thith-
cr straight from Perth in order to beat up
recruits for the spring campaign. thought
the devil himself must be in such trans
ports. and from the devil he again fed.
this time by water. across Loeb Fyne.
Montrose. overlooked at the, success of