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Updated: June 7, 2025
It was important that Charles should be at once taken to the mainland, and John Mackinnon went off at noon to the house of the chief of the Mackinnons to borrow a boat. This old man was a fine type of a Highland gentleman. It was his daily probably his only prayer that he might die on the field of battle fighting for his king and country.
"Very ancient, and weel respeckit," the man answered. "And who is your sheik, rajah, chieftain, or what you call him?" "My lord Macdonald. I am cousin to my lord." "Indeed! He owns the whole island, I suppose?" "There's Mackinnons live there. But they are interlopers; they are worthless trash," and he spit in disgust.
The oldest sheep-farming family in Scotland are the Mackinnons of Corrie in Skye. They have been on Corrie for four hundred years and they were holding sheep-farms elsewhere even earlier. The Macraes of Achnagart in Kintail, paid rent to Seaforth for two hundred years.
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