He was too frightened to speak, but put his
head under his coverlet and went to sleep. Once more he was roused in
like manner, and saw the same sight. In the morning he spoke to his
father about it, who told him that it was Macdonnochie _[the Gaelic
patronymic of the laird of Inverawe]_ whom he had seen, and who came to
tell him that he had been killed in a great battle in America.
Sure enough, said my informant, it was on the very day that the
battle of Ticonderoga was fought and the laird was killed."
It is also said that two ladies of the family of Inverawe saw a
battle in the clouds, in which the shadowy forms of Highland
warriors were plainly to be described; and that when the fatal
news came from America, it was found that the time of the
vision answered exactly to that of the battle in which the head
of the family fell.
The legend of Inverawe has within a few years found its way
into an English magazine, and it has also been excellently told
in the _Atlantic Monthly_ of September of this year, 1884, by Miss
C.F. Gordon Cumming. Her version differs a little from that
given above from the recital of Dean Stanley and the present laird
of Inverawe, but the essential points are the same. Miss Gordon
Cumming, however, is in error when she says that Duncan Campbell
was wounded in the breast, and that he was first buried at
Ticonderoga. His burial-place was near Fort Edward, where he
died, and where his remains still lie, though not at the same spot,
as they were long after removed by a family named Gilchrist,
who claimed kinship with the Campbells of Inverawe.
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