Macnaghten of Macnaghten and Stewart of Appin were at the muster with their little clans.

Macdonald of Keppoch led the warriors who had, a few months before, under his command, put to flight the musketeers of King James.

Macdonald of Clanronald was of tender years: but he was brought to the camp by his uncle, who acted at Regent during the minority.

The youth was attended by a picked body guard composed of his own cousins, all comely in appearance, and good men of their hands.

Macdonald of Glengarry, conspicuous by his dark brow and his lofty stature, came from that great valley where a chain of lakes, then unknown to fame, and scarcely set down in maps, is now the daily highway of steam vessels passing and reprising between the Atlantic and the German Ocean.