CHAPTER I.. The Highlanders of Scotland.

THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND.

Division of Scotland--People of the Highlands--Language--Clanship--Chiefs Customs--Special Characteristics--Fiery-Cross--Slogan--Mode of Battle Forays--Feasts--Position of Woman--Marriage--Religious Toleration Superstitions--Poets--Pipers--Cave of Coire-nan-Uriskin--The Harp--Gaelic Music--Costume--Scotland's Wars--War with Romans--Battle of Largs--Bannockburn--Flodden--Pinkie--Wars of Montrose--Bonnie Dundee--Earl of Mar--Prince Charles Stuart--Atrocities in the Wake of Culloden--Uncertainty of Travellers' Observations--Kidnapping Emigration 17