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day more and more desperate, that he was sur-
rounded by enemies, and in continual danger of
falling into their hands, consented to follow the
advice given him by Sullivan of yielding to his
misfortunes, so far as to consult his own safety.
He therefore resolved to go in quest of a boat, to
carry him over to the island of Lewis, where he
entertained some hopes of finding a vessel to
transport him to France. When they reached
the sea shore, they could find no boats, as the
M' Donalds of Clanronald's family had seized on
all they could meet with, in order to transport
themselves to South Uist and the boats were not
yet returned. This obliged them to retire to the
mountains, in which they wandered about for three
days and nights. A boat, however, returning
from South Uist, to fetch more of their people
that were missing, Charles; who observed it,
immediately hastened to the shore, and raising a
signal, the crew, who imagined that it was made
by some of their party in distress, put into a small
creek to the westward of Barrisdale, and taking
him and his party on board, sailed directly to
South Uist; and night coming on, they were
soon out of sight.
Being out at sea, some of the crew proposed to
sail towards a small island called Canna, lying to
the westward of Mull, and Charles knowing that
