Some say that the Chief referred to was _Ailein nan Creach_ (Allan the Cattle-lifter), who derived his name from the number of cattle-spoils that he lifted. Lochaber being a wild and remote district was not unnaturally a place to which cattle forays were taken when people sought “the beeves that made the broth” in other localities. In Gregory’s History of the Western Islands _Dòmhnull Conalach_ is called John, probably from the Chiefs of Ardnamurchan being known as Mac-’ic-Iain, the son of the son of John, and mention is made of his murder. Several families who have in recent times come to Coll from Ardnamurchan call themselves Johnstones. Big Angus himself had a house near Strontian strongly fortified according to the ideas of those days. It was surrounded by a deep ditch (_Tigh daingean dige_) and what is now called a moated Grange. On hearing that Lochiel with a strong band of followers was on his way to avenge the death of the young Chief of Ardnamurchan, Big Angus fled, but he was closely pursued by the avengers. Having come to Cor-ospuinn in Morven he looked behind him, when the sun was rising, to see if his pursuers were coming. Lifting his helmet and shading his eyes with his hand when looking intently sunwards, one of the pursuers, a little man, remarked, “Would not this be a good opportunity for killing him?” Another answered, “It is not your trifling hand that would slay the powerful man.” (_Cha ’n i do làmh leibideach a leagadh an duine foghainteach_). The little man replied, “Would not an arrow do it” (_Nach deanadh saighead e_), saying this, he launched an arrow which struck Big Angus in the forehead and killed him. * * * * * NOTES: BIG ANGUS OF ARDNAMURCHAN. (_Aonghas mór Mac ’ic Eoin_)