CHAPTER XXVII.
"This Austin humbly did." "Did he ?" quoth he.
"Austin may do the same again for me." Pope's Prologue to Canterbury Tales from Chaucer.
The course of our story will be best pursued by attending that of Simon Glover.

It is not our purpose to indicate the exact local boundaries of the two contending clans, especially since they are not clearly pointed out by the historians who have transmitted accounts of this memorable feud.

It is sufficient to say, that the territory of the Clan Chattan extended far and wide, comprehending Caithness and Sutherland, and having for their paramount chief the powerful earl of the latter shire, thence called Mohr ar Chat.

In this general sense, the Keiths, the Sinclairs, the Guns, and other families and clans of great power, were included in the confederacy.

These, however, were not engaged in the present quarrel, which was limited to that part of the Clan Chattan occupying the extensive mountainous districts of Perthshire and Inverness shire, which form a large portion of what is called the northeastern Highlands.