The heart of the Scottish people followed with a yearning interest the movements of the Seventy-eighth throughout this memorable campaign. With gratitude our countrymen hailed the regiment, when a kind Providence recently restored it to its native land, where every grade of society united to do honour to that bravery which so conspicuously graced our national history upon the dismal page of the Indian mutiny, and in commemoration thereof a monument has been erected in Edinburgh, an Illustration of which is given in this work. We close our sketch with the feeling that words have failed to express the just admiration with which we must ever regard this, the “scion of the Seaforth,” the “Saviour of India.” [Illustration] INAUGURATION OF THE MONUMENT TO THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH, EDINBURGH. [Illustration: PRESENTATION PLATE TO THE SEVENTY-EIGHTH AS THE SAVIOURS OF INDIA.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SEVENTY-NINTH FOOT; OR, CAMERON HIGHLANDERS. CHAPTER XXXIX. “There’s many a man of the Cameron clan That has follow’d his chief to the field; He has sworn to support him, or die by his side, For a Cameron never can yield. “Oh! proudly they walk, but each Cameron knows He may tread on the heather no more; But boldly he follows his chief to the field, Where his laurels were gathered before.” There is perhaps do name so deeply interesting in the annals of the Highlanders as that of Cameron; no clan so truly the exponent of all that is brave and noble, and none whose chief has been so largely the exemplar in his life of all the god-like qualities of the man, the patriot, and the hero, and whose memory is so fondly cherished and so highly revered. Such was the illustrious leader of the clan, Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel— “The crested Lochiel, the peerless in might.” [Illustration: SIR EWEN CAMERON OF LOCHEIL. THE SEVENTY-NINTH, “OR CAMERON HIGHLANDERS.” ] The Camerons by their conspicuous patriotism, marching under the banner of the Lord of the Isles at the battle of Bannockburn, contributed to illumine the page of our ancient glory.