Gaelic the whole story, omitting no details; giving an account of the number of men, women and children he had brought with him, their perils and their escapes, their hardships borne with heroic devotion; how, when on the verge of starvation, they had boiled their moccasins and eaten them; how they had encountered the enemy, the wild beasts and Indians, beaten all off and landed the multitude safely in Glengarry. The General listened with respectful attention, and at the termination of the narrative, wishing to say something pleasant, observed: "Why, dear me, Donald, your exploits seem almost to have equalled even those of Moses himself when leading the children of Israel through the Wilderness from Egypt to the Land of Promise." Up jumped old Donald. "Moses," exclaimed the veteran with an unmistakable air of contempt, and adding a double expletive that need not here be repeated, "Compare ME to Moses! Why, Moses took forty years in his vain attempts to lead his men over a much shorter distance, and through a mere trifling wilderness in comparison with mine, and he never did reach his destination, and lost half his army in the Red Sea. I brought my people here without the loss of a single man." It has been noted that the Highlanders who settled on the Mohawk, on the lands of Sir William Johnson, were Roman Catholics. Sir William, nor his son and successor, Sir John Johnson, took any steps to procure them a religious teacher in the principles of their faith. They were not so provided until after the Revolution, and then only when they were settled on the lands that had been allotted to them. In 1785, the people themselves took the proper steps to secure such an one,--and one who was able to speak the Gaelic, for many of them were ignorant of the English language. In the month of September, 1786, the ship "McDonald," from Greenock, brought Reverend Alexander McDonell, Scotus, with five hundred emigrants from Knoydart, who settled with their kinsfolk in Glengarry, Canada. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 101: Gentleman's Magazine, Sept. 30, 1773.] [Footnote 102: Am. Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. II. p. 151.] [Footnote 103: _Ibid_, p. 637.] [Footnote 104: _Ibid_, p. 638.] [Footnote 105: _Ibid_, p. 661.] [Footnote 106: _Ibid_, p. 665.] [Footnote 107: _Ibid_, p. 672.] [Footnote 108: _Ibid_, p. 712.] [Footnote 109: _Ibid_, p. 880.] [Footnote 110: Stone's Life of Brant, Vol. I, p. 106.] [Footnote 111: Am. Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. III. p. 1194.] [Footnote 112: _Ibid_, p. 1245.] [Footnote 113: _Ibid_, p. 1963.] [Footnote 114: Documentary and Colonial History of New York, Vol. VIII, p. 651.] [Footnote 115: Am. Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. IV, pp. 818-829.] [Footnote 116: Documentary and Colonial History of New York, Vol. VIII, p. 668.] [Footnote 117: See Appendix, Note J.] [Footnote 118: Am. Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. VI, p. 447.] [Footnote 119: _Ibid_, p. 643.] [Footnote 120: _Ibid_, p. 642.] [Footnote 121: _Ibid_, p. 644.]