ficulty)
agreed to undertake the dangerous enterprize, she set out for
Clanranald's house, Saturday, June 21st, and at one of the fords was
taken prisoner by a party of militia, she not having a passport. She
demanded to whom they belonged? And finding by the answer that her
step-father was then commander, she refused to give any answers till she
should see their captain. So she and her servant, Neil MacKechan, were
prisoners all that night.

Her stepfather, coming next day, being Sunday, she told him what she was
about, upon which he granted a passport for herself, a manservant (Neil
MacKechan), and another woman, Bettie Burk, a good spinster, and whom he
recommended as such in a letter to his wife at Armadale in Sky, as she
had much lint to spin. If her stepfather (Hugh MacDonald of Armadale)
had not granted Miss a passport, she could not have undertaken her
journey and voyage. Armadale set his stepdaughter at liberty, who
immediately made the best of her way to Clanranald's house and
acquainted the Lady Clanranald with the scheme, who supplied the Prince
with apparel sufficient for his disguise, viz. a flower'd linen gown, a
white apron, etc., and sent some provisions along with him.

During Miss MacDonald's stay at Clanranald's house, which was till the
Friday, June 27th, O'Neil went several times betwixt the Prince and
Miss, in which interval another scheme was proposed, that the Prince
should go under the care of a gentleman to the north ward, but that
failing them, they behoved to have recourse to that agreed upon before;
and accordingly Lady Clanranald, one Mrs. MacDonald, O'Neil, Miss Flora
MacDonald, and her servant, Neil MacKechan, went to the place where the
Prince was, being about eight Scotch miles. He was then in a very little
house or hut, assisting in the roasting of his dinner, which consisted
of the heart, liver, kidneys, etc., of a bullock or sheep, upon a wooden
spit. O'Neil introduced his young preserver and the company, and she sat
on the Prince's right hand and Lady Clanranald on his left. Here all
dined very heartily....

When all were gone who were not to accompany the Prince in his voyage to
the Isle of Sky, Miss MacDonald desired him to dress himself in his new
attire, which was soon done, and at a proper time they removed their
quarters and went near the water with their boat afloat, nigh at hand
for readiness to embark in case of an alarm from the shore. Here they
arrived, very wet and w