The Scots yielded at discretion, and every living creature in the place, except the chief and his family (who were probably reserved for ransom), was immediately put to the sword.

Two hundred were killed in the castle.

It was then discovered that several hundred more, chiefly mothers and their little ones, were hidden in the caves about the shore.

There was no remorse, nor even the faintest shadow of perception that the occasion called for it.

They were hunted out as if they had been seals or otters, and all destroyed.