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then! It was lamentable past expreſſion: their husbands and fathers and near relations were forced to face for their lives; they themſelves almost ſtript and nothing left them, and their houſes being burnt, and not one house nearer than fix miles; and to get thither they were to paſs over mountains, and wreaths of snow, in a vehement form, wherein the moſt part of them periſhed through hunger and cold. It fills re with horror to think of poor ſtript children and women, some with child and some giving suck, wreſtling against a ſtorm, in mountains and heaps of ſnow, and at length to be overcome, and give over, and fall down, and die miſerable.
You ſee in Hamilton's order to Duncanſon, there is a ſpecial caution, That the Old Fox nor none of his Cubs ſhould eſcape; and in Duncaoſon's order to Capt. Campbell of Glenlyon, That the old Fox nor none of his: ſons eſcape; but notwithſtanding all this wicked caution, it pleaſed God that the two young gentlemen, Mackian's ſons escaped. For it happened that the younger of these gentlemen truſted little to the fair. promiſes of Campbell and had a more watchful eye over him than his father or brother, who ſuffered themselves, by his reiterated oaths, to be deluded into a belief of his integrity: he having a ſtrong impreſſion on his ſpirit that some miſchievous deſign was hidden under Campbell's ſpecious pretences, it made him, after the rest were in bed, remain in a retired corner, where he had an advantageous prospect into their guard. About midnight perceiving ſeveral ſoldiers' to enter it, this increaſed his jealousy, ſo lie went and communicated his fears to his, brother, who could not for a long time be perſuaded there was any bad deſign againſt them, and aſſerted, That what he had ſeen was no: a doubling their guards in order ill deſign, but that being in a ſtrange place, and at a distance from the Garriſon, they were toſend out Centinels far from the guard, and becauſe of the extremity of the weather relieved them often, and that the men he ſaw could be no more than theſe. Yet he perſiſting to ſay, That they were not so ſecure, but that it was fit to acquaint their father with what he had ſeen, he prevailed with his brother to viſe, and go with him to
