CHAPTER XXV.--JAMES MACKENZIE'S GAIRLOCH STORIES.

Short Account of James Mackenzie--William Roy Mackenzie and the exciseman--Kenneth and John Mackenzie of Rona and the press-gang--John M'Gregor of Londubh escapes from the press-gang, but is killed by a fall over a rock--Murdo Mackenzie, or Murdo's son, marries Lord Breadalbane's daughter and takes possession of a lugger full of smuggled spirit--Anecdote of Sir Hector Mackenzie and M'Leod of Raasay's boat--Mackenzie of Kernsary and James Mackenzie's grandfather--The whale in Loch Ewe drowns three men--A story of Rob Donn--The Loch Broom herring fishery--The other Rob Roy Macgregor and the Dundonnell estates--Cases of drowning in Loch Maree--Hector Mackenzie, William Urquhart and his son, and Kenneth Mackenzie--A Kenlochewe man rolls overboard--Kenneth Mackenzie and Gregor Macgregor carried down by the Talladale river--John M'Ryrie--Kenneth Urquhart--Sandy Mackenzie--The Stornoway packet and the whale--Wreck of M'Callum's schooner at Melvaig--A sea captain buried in Isle Ewe--The loss of the "Glenelg"--Wreck of the "Helen Marianne" of Campbeltown--Wreck of the "Lord Molyneux" of Liverpool--John Macdonald, the drover of Loch Maree--The murder of Grant, the peddler, by M'Leod, who is at length hung--Death of the Shieldaig shoemaker and his companions at Lochinver 201