They then carried the ghastly trophy in triumph to their chief.
The whole clan met under the roof of an ancient church.

Every one in turn laid his hand on the dead man's scalp, and vowed to defend the slayers.

[219] The inhabitants of Eigg seized some Macleods, bound them hand and foot, and turned them adrift in a boat to be swallowed up by the waves or to perish of hunger.

The Macleods retaliated by driving the population of Eigg into a cavern, lighting a fire at the entrance, and suffocating the whole race, men, women and children.

[220] It is much less strange that the two great Earls of the house of Campbell, animated by the passions of Highland chieftains, should have planned a Highland revenge, than that they should have found an accomplice, and something more than an accomplice, in the Master of Stair.
The Master of Stair was one of the first men of his time, a jurist, a statesman, a fine scholar, an eloquent orator.