They came; but the treaty went on very slowly.

Every head of a tribe asked for a larger share of the English gold than was to be obtained.

Breadalbane was suspected of intending to cheat both the clans and the King.

The dispute between the rebels and the government was complicated with another dispute still more embarrassing.

The Camerons and Macdonalds were really at war, not with William, but with Mac Callum More; and no arrangement to which Mac Callum More was not a party could really produce tranquillity.