Beyond them was Lochiel with his Camerons.

On the extreme left, the men of Sky were marshalled by Macdonald of Sleat, [365] In the Highlands, as in all countries where war has not become a science, men thought it the most important duty of a commander to set an example of personal courage and of bodily exertion.

Lochiel was especially renowned for his physical prowess.

His clansmen looked big with pride when they related how he had himself broken hostile ranks and hewn down tall warriors.

He probably owed quite as much of his influence to these achievements as to the high qualities which, if fortune had placed him in the English Parliament or at the French court, would have made him one of the foremost men of his age.