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sey, and a deep excitement prevailed, when it was
whispered-none knew how-that they were under
secret orders for the distant East Indies-in other
words, that they had been SOU to the East India
Company by the Government, and that, worse than
the authorities basely having an idea that the poor
clansmen of Kintail "were ignorant, unable to comprehend
the nature of their stipulations, and incapable
of demanding redress for any breach of trust."
But the Seaforth men were neither so ignorant
all, they had been sold by their officers and by the
chief, whom they had looked upon as a father and
leader.
All their native jealousy and distrust of the
Saxon was now kindled and strengthened by their
love of home. General David Stewart, in his
'' Sketches of the Highlanders," boldly asserts that
the regiment was secretly under orders for India,
nor so confiding as the Government supposed, and
they were determined at all hazards not to submit
to the least infraction of the terms on which they
were enlisted as Fencible Infantry-limited service
and within the British Isles ; and when the day for
embarkation came, the zznd September, their longsmothered
wrath could no longer be hidden.
" The regiment paraded on the Castle hill, and
