E-text prepared by Brian Coe, John Campbell, Jane Robins, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations and also some music recordings. See 59469-h.htm or 59469-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59469/59469-h/59469-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59469/59469-h.zip) This volume originally was printed as four separate books (see transcriber's note below). Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. Book 5, pages 1-192: https://archive.org/details/historyofscottis005kelt Book 6, pages 193-384: https://archive.org/details/historyofscottis006kelt Book 7, pages 385-592: https://archive.org/details/historyofscottis007kelt Book 8, pages 593-818: https://archive.org/details/historyofscottis008kelt Transcriber’s note This is Volume II of a two-volume set. The first volume can be found at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59468. This 1875 edition originally was published in eight separate books as a subscription publication. The Preface, Title pages, Tables of Contents and Lists of Illustrations (the Front Matter) were published in the final eighth book, and referenced books 1-4 as Volume I, and books 5-8 as Volume II. This etext follows the same two-volume structure. The relevant Front Matter has been moved to the front of each volume, and some illustrations have been moved to where the two Lists of Illustrations indicate they should be. No text was added or changed when the books were seamlessly joined to make Volume I and Volume II. Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter. A caret character is used to denote superscription. A single character following the caret is superscripted (example: C^o). Multiple superscripted characters are enclosed by curly brackets (example: 42^{nd}). Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ⅓ ¼ etc; other fractions are shown in the form a/b, for example 1/12 or 1/16. Regimental designations of the form a/b are unchanged, for example ‘1/4th Native Infantry’. In Chapter XLV the English translation of Gaelic text was usually positioned side by side with that text in the original book. In this etext the translation is positioned after the Gaelic passage. Several of these passages are quite long.