Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire

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List of Books and MSS. quoted or referred to.Statement of Authorities for Traditions, &c., embodied in this Book.Memoirs of Bards and Pipers.TABLES.

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E.F.G.H.INDEX.

Inhabitants of Gairloch.

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I.Ancestry and Names109

II.Warfare and Weapons112

III.Polity and Customs114

IV.Religion and Religious Observances117

V.Character and Characteristics121

VI.Language and Dress125

VII.Ways and Means132

VIII.Agriculture and Stock136

IX.Fisheries143

X.Posts and Roadmaking147

XI.Superstitions of Isle Maree150

XII.Superstitions of Isle Maree—continued153

XIII.Superstitions generally158

XIV.Witchcraft and Magic163

XV.Visions and Second Sight169

XVI.Bards and Pipers173

XVII.Hereditary Pipers of the Gairloch Family177

XVIII.William Mackenzie and Malcolm Maclean180

XIX.William Ross, the Gairloch Bard183

XX.Alexander Campbell, Bard to Sir Hector185

XXI.Alexander Grant, the great Bard of Slaggan187

XXII.John Mackenzie of "The Beauties"189

XXIII.Living Gairloch Bards192

XXIV.The Poolewe Artist200

XXV.James Mackenzie's Gairloch Stories201