Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ance to him ; enabling himto retain his ill-gotten possession until, after many years, he wassurprised by the sudden return of the rightful chief, Tormod, fromFrance, when he dashed out of the sea gate and escaped toIreland, but presently met his deserts. As for Tormod, he went to work on a more extensive , with the promptitude of a Jehu, that there should beno more bother about the succession, he gave orders for a cleansweep of lans kin ; and, accordingly, nine brothers and sisters ofthe usurper, with all their families, w
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . ance to him ; enabling himto retain his ill-gotten possession until, after many years, he wassurprised by the sudden return of the rightful chief, Tormod, fromFrance, when he dashed out of the sea gate and escaped toIreland, but presently met his deserts. As for Tormod, he went to work on a more extensive , with the promptitude of a Jehu, that there should beno more bother about the succession, he gave orders for a cleansweep of lans kin ; and, accordingly, nine brothers and sisters ofthe usurper, with all their families, were simultaneously slaugh-tered at his command. Tormod the exterminator has been alsoconsidered to have perpetrated the massacre at Eigg ; but it isfairly certain that Ian Dubh was the real author of it, as it isknown to have occurred in 1577, in which year he was at Dun-vegan, and Tormod was in France. The story is this; — SomeClanranalds had just paid off a score against a recent raidingparty of his clan, when MacLeod Herreik landed with ane great. ALISTER CROTACHS TOMB IN RODEL CHURCH 52 Dimveoan Castle armie. Apprised of his coming, tiie whole population of theisland took refuge in a cave, where all were suffocated, tothe number of 195 persons, man, wyfe and bairnis; many ofthe poor wretches pressing up close to the blocked entrance,gasping for air, as their bones, lately exhumed at the very,threshold, have, it is said, testified. Over the Drawing-room are some bedrooms. Scott remarks,in reference to his room, the mind is not similarly affected at alltimes alike. Happily it is not; otherwise meditation on thehorrors that took place immediately below might be hardly con-ducive to repose. Happily, also, in the long days, the afterglowalmost merges into the dawn, so that one feels even lans victims would hardly think it worth their while to turnout for the short time during which it is comparatively dark. From the summit of the Watch-tower, reached from thisdire
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