The Highlanders of Scotland: Their Origin, History, and Antiquities : with a Sketch of Their Manners and Customs, and an Account of the Clans Into which They Were Divided, and of the State of Society which Existed Among Them, Volume 1J. Murray, 1837 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 209 - The manner of the hunting is this: five or six hundred men do rise early in the morning, and they do disperse themselves divers ways, and seven, eight, or ten miles...
Pagina 204 - Every isle differs from each other in their fancy of making plaids as to the stripes in breadth and colours. This humour is as different through the mainland of the Highlands, in so far that they who have seen those places are able at the first view of a man's plaid to guess the place of his residence.
Pagina 199 - ... as for breeches, many of them, nor their forefathers never wore any, but a jerkin of the same stuff...
Pagina 210 - ... and daggers, in the space of two hours, fourscore fat deer were slain ; which after are disposed of, some one way, and some another, twenty and thirty miles, and more than enough left for us, to make merry withal, at our rendezvous.
Pagina 199 - ... with a plaid about their shoulders, which is a mantle of divers colours...
Pagina 127 - The Chief exercises an arbitrary Authority over his Vassals, determines all Differences and Disputes that happen among them, and levies Taxes upon extraordinary Occasions, such as the Marriage of a Daughter, building a House, or some Pretence for his Support and the Honour of the Name. And if any one should refuse to contribute to the best of his Ability he is sure of severe Treatment, and if he persisted in his Obstinacy he would be cast out of his Tribe by general Consent : but Instances of this...
Pagina 139 - Moreover, there was a judge in every Isle for the discussion of all controversies, who had lands from Macdonald for their trouble, and likewise the eleventh part of every action decided. But there might be still an appeal to the Council of the Isles. MacFinnon was •obliged to see weights and measures adjusted ; and MacDuffie, or MacPhie of Colonsay, kept the records of the Isles.
Pagina 210 - Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the...
Pagina 199 - ... their hose, with blue flat caps on their heads, a handkerchiefe knit with two knots about their necke; and thus are they attyred.
Pagina 194 - The rest of their garments consisted of a short woollen jacket with the sleeves open below for the convenience of throwing their darts, and a covering for the thighs of the simplest kind, more for decency than for show or a defence against cold. They made also of linen, very large shirts, with numerous folds and wide sleeves, which flowed abroad loosely to their knees.