Death of the Shieldaig Shoemaker and his Companions at Lochinver.
"It was long after the murder of Grant, the peddler, in Assynt, that three men from Shieldaig of Applecross went in their smack to fish with long lines for cod at Lochinver. One of them was a shoemaker. It is said that they came ashore to the inn there. After their return to the smack, three days passed without any smoke from the vessel, and the people on shore did not know what was the cause of it. So they went to see what was wrong, and they found the three men dead, two of them among the barrels in the hold, and one at the hearth in the fo'castle. They came ashore, and a letter was sent to M'Phee, the fishing-officer at Shieldaig of Applecross, reporting the case. Three Shieldaig men went first to Lochinver and brought the vessel home. I saw them as they passed Poolewe. Some thought that the three fishermen had had poison given them in the inn. After the disappearance of John Macdonald, the Loch Maree drover, and his two companions, and the murder of Grant the peddler, in Assynt, it was considered dangerous for men from Gairloch and the neighbourhood to visit that wild country."
A GAIRLOCH MAN.
PART III.
Natural History of Gairloch.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Physical Features | [219] |
| II. | Climate and Weather | [222] |
| III. | Anecdotes and Notes | [227] |
| IV. | Lower Forms of Life | [233] |
| V. | Mammals of Gairloch | [236] |
| VI. | Birds of Gairloch | [241] |
| VII. | Flowering Plants of Gairloch | [256] |
| VIII. | Shells of Gairloch. By Rev. John M'Murtrie, M.A. | [265] |
| IX. | Geology of Loch Maree and Neighbourhood. By William Jolly,F.G.S., F.R.S.E., &c. | [271] |
| X. | Minerals of Gairloch. By W. Ivison Macadam, F.C.S. Edin. | [289] |