Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... no doubt, painful and laborious. And the more would such a book be acceptable if the writer could have been induced to write as he spoke; which so very few succeed in doing at the present day. In the following narrative, in which a Highland gentleman of no small sagacity and selfappreciation, of the age of the first facobite Rebellion, and of a type familiar to Captain Burt, records his adventures while following his Chief, and afterwards in search of him in his exile in foreign parts, it is believed there will be found a story interesting in itself and acceptable as an illustration of N the unsophisticated thought, and quaint mode of expression characteristic of a period marked by little of culture and refinement, but, it may be, by qualities more substantial. Major Fraser's chronicle helps also to elucidate several Points in the tangled history of his Chief, Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, that stand in need of all the light that can be shed on them. It may be said, at once, that there is here no attempt to re-habilitate the character of Simon Fraser, a task requiring a stronger pen than that of the present writer. But the reader who will peruse the "poor Major's" record of the troublesome times, before and after "the 'ij," will be furnished with additional material from which to judge how far the peculiar repute in which Lord Lovat has been held is justified. Further, it must be said, that Major Fraser, otherwise Castle Leathers, any more than either of the gentlemen above named, is not to be taken as a model of all the excellences. This is sufficiently shewn in the course of the narrative. Nevertheless he probably did himself little more than justice, when he wrote, some four years after his Chief had suffered on Tower Hill, and...
