=16. Charles's Wanderings.=--Charles, whose foolhardy ambition had brought all this misery on his simple followers, passed five months in perilous wanderings. A great price was set on his head; but, poor as the Highlanders were, not one of them would stoop to win it by betraying him. At one time, when he was tracked by the soldiers, he was saved by a young lady called _Flora MacDonald_, who got a passport for him under the name of _Betty Burke_, her maid. In this disguise he escaped to _Skye_. After this he came back to the mainland, and lived for some time with seven robbers in a cave. They kept him hidden and supplied his wants as well as they could, and used to go in disguise to the nearest town to pick up what news they could. One day, as a great dainty, they brought him back a pennyworth of gingerbread. When he left them Charles joined two of his adherents, _MacPherson_ of _Cluny_ and _Lochiel_, and he and they stayed in a strange hiding-place called the _Cage_ on the side of _Ben-alder_, till two French vessels appeared on the coast. In one of these he embarked, September 20, at _Lochnannagh_, the same place where, fourteen months before, he had landed. Thus Charles escaped to the Continent, but his memory was long cherished in the country that had suffered so much for him. He was compelled to leave France after the _Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle_, and ended an unsettled, discontented, dissipated life at Rome in 1788. His brother _Henry_, called the _Cardinal of York_, the last of the Stewart line, survived him nearly twenty years.