Chapter XXVII: Appendix (5)

ALCOHOL, A DANGEROUS POISON—Evidence of Sir Andrew Clark, Sir William
Gull, Dr. Norman Kerr, Dr. Murchison, Dr. Alfred Carpenter, etc.,
462, 463.

Alexandria, 197.

Allahabad, 202.

Alma, The Battle of, 132.

ALNWICK CASTLE, 107, 141;
school for wood-carving, 142;
electric light even in dungeon, 146.

—— an Italian wedding, 143;
coming of age, 143.

ALTYRE, 1, 6, 53.

—— Gardens, 35.

Anaradhapura, 211.

Anglesea, Marquis of, 16.

Anstruther in Fife, 229.

Ant-hills, 46.

Any Soul to any Body, 377.

Applecross in Ross-shire, 206.

Apprentice, quaint agreement, 80.

Archbishop of Athens, 86.

Archery, Japan, 339.

Ard Patrick, Campbells of, 24.

Argyll, Duke of, 144, 214.

Arndilly, 159.

Ashburton, Lady, 108.

“As it is done in Heaven,” 453.

“At Last,” 378.

Atlantic Cable, 153.

Auchintoul, 207.

Australia, 218.

BADENOCH, Lords of, 1.

Badgers, “Inch-Brock,” 407.

Barnscleugh, 157.

Bass Rock, 123.

Bathing in Japan, 286, 310, 330, 382.

Batticaloa, Ceylon, 174.

Belhaven, Baron, 21, 157.

Ben Agan, 159.

Benares on the Ganges, 201.

Ben Rinnes, 159.

Birdsall House, 205, 206 _note_.

Birnie near Elgin, Culdee Church, 427.

Bishops of ARGYLL AND THE ISLES, Ewing, 33, 45, 156.

—— BRECHIN, Forbes, 31;
Jermyn, 33, 171 _note_, 207.

—— LONDON, Blomfield, 109.

—— MORAY AND ROSS, Eden, 158, 188, 191.

—— SAMOA, Elloi, 227.

Blind Chang of Manchuria, 362–364.

Bonnie Dundee at Duffus, 404.

Bothwell, Countess of, 85.

Boy nurses in Japan, 300.

Braille’s symbols adapted to Chinese, 355.

Brander, Mrs., 228.

Brechin, Forbes, Bishop of, 31.

Breechloaders, 117.

Bridge of Allan, 138.

Bridges, the lack of, 441.

Brief lives, 51.

Buddha’s tooth, 213.

Buddhist Pantheon, 275.

—— sects in Japan, 292.

Burghead, 69, 111, 402.

—— Burning the Clavie, 69.

Burning of New Testaments in Fiji, 224.

CADMAN, The Rev. William, 109.

Cadzow Park, 157.

Calcutta, 198.

California, 230.

Callum’s Hill, Crieff, Legend of, 376.

Campbell, Lady Charlotte, 15, 21;
her daughters, 15;
second marriage to Rev. Edward Bury, 19.

—— Lady Emma, 184.

Carbonised animal medicine, 297.

Castle Grant, 151.

Ceylon, first glimpse, 198.

—— two years in, 207.

Changes, 119.

Charleville, Countess of, 15.

“Chérie,” 43, 48, 103, 105.

Cherry blossom festival, 280.

CHILLINGHAM CASTLE, 107, 154.

—— cattle, 157.

Chrysanthemum shows, 283–286.

Circulating libraries in Japan, 253–263.

Clan Comyn or Cumming, 1.

—— Grant, last rising of, 161.

Claverhouse, 404.

Coaching days, 108, 440.

College House, Crieff, 371–375.

Compiègne, Life at, 154.

Comrie, village of, 192.

Comyn, The Red, 2.

CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY, 443–452.

Consumption, 155, 156.

Conway, Anne Seymour (the Hon. Mrs. John Damer), 102, 422.

Cornish estates, 26.

Cornwall, 209.

Coronach, The Chieftain’s, 189.

Cothall, 6.

Covesea cliffs, 56, 57 _note_.

Craig-Ellachie, 159.

Cremation, 244–252.

CRESSWELL HALL, 102;
old customs, 105, 141;
dialect, 112.

Cresswell, Captain William, 125, 132.

Crieff, 192, 370.

Crimean War, 125.

CRUELTY of telling irreverent, or merely funny stories about sacred
verses, 462 _note_.

Cryptomerias, 289, 313.

Crystal Palace of 1851, 115.

—— at Sydenham, opening ceremony, 127.

Culbyn Sandhills, 55, 387, 395, 398.

Cullen House, 164.

Cumming the Fair, Seventh Bishop of Iona, 13.

Cumming, varied spelling, 2.

CUMMING-BRUCE, 12.

—— Elma, Countess of Elgin, 12.

—— The Rev. Charles, 13.

“DAILY DOSE OF ALCOHOL, the cause of disease,” 463.

Dallas, 6, 70.

Darsie, Mrs., 229.

DEATH _of my mother_, 43;
_of my father_, 136;
_of Captain Cresswell_, 132;
_of Oswin Cresswell_, 147;
_of my sister Seymour Cresswell_, 156;
_of The Master of Grant_, 164;
_of Earl of Seafield_, 166;
_of my sister Alice_, 171;
_of my brother John_, 174;
_of Roualeyn_, 175–181;
_of Penrose_, 183–190;
_of my sister Ida_, 180;
_of my sister Eleanora and George Grant_, 193;
of my half-brother Frederick, 194 _note_;
of the Rev. Fred. and Mrs. Langham, 222–224.

Devie and Dorbach rivers, 53.

Doll festival in Japan, 301.

Dovecots, 73, 97, 98.

Drainie, 87.

—— Dr. Rose, minister of, reminiscence, 70;
his last service in St. Giles’, 434.

Druggists’ shops of old Japan and old England, 296–299.

Duffus Castle, 404, 408.

Dunbar of Northfield and Duffus, 28–30.

Dungeons at Gordonstoun, 74, 94–96.

Dunphail, 8;
old castle of, 9, 10.

Dunrobin, 87, 94.

Duthil, 165.

Dyer, Henry, 232.

Dysart, Countess of, 151.

EARTHQUAKES in Japan, 319–326.

Easter Elchies, 159;
leave, 192.

Easy reading for illiterate Chinese, 359.

Ecclesiastical Censures, 83, 84.

Eddystone Rock, 207.

Elgin, formerly a picturesque old town, 435;
very numerous malt-kilns, 436;
street lamps, 437;
condition of streets, 438;
water-supply, 439;
coals first imported, 439.

—— Church of St. Giles, 431;
seats apportioned, 432;
lighting, 433;
bells, 435.

—— Cathedral built, 427;
burnt, 428;
rebuilt but lead stripped by order of Privy Council, 428.

Election, bitterly contested, 163.

Empress Eugenie and Louis Napoleon, 154.

—— Haruku, 240, 335.

“Enemy of the Human Race,” by Sir Andrew Clark, 463.

FAUTONG, wadded quilt, 315.

Feudal sports revived, 337.

Figure 9 minus a tail!, 383.

Fiji, “At home in,” 216.

—— in 1903, 225.

Findhorn Bay, 395, 401.

—— river, 53.

First Book, 204.

“Fish,” 37, 39.

—— Festival in Japan, 300.

Five o’clock tea an innovation, 115.

Flower festivals in Japan, 276–286.

Flowers, favourite, 136, 156.

—— Camelia trees in Japan, 243.

—— useful selection and packing, 113.

—— wild, 88, 105, 113, 312.

Folklore anent foxes, 290.

Footprint held sacred, 212.

Forres and Elgin, 382.

Fort Augustus, 175.

Fortune-telling, 15.

Forty-seven Rônins, 277.

Fox-god, his shrines, 288.

—— demoniacal possession by, 290.

Fujiyama, 109;
ascent of, 307–330;
view from summit, 318.

Funeral, a double, 164.

—— pall, 76.

GALLOWS HILL, 7, 87.

Garratt, the Rev. Mr., 109.

Geologists at Altyre, 38.

George Gordon, prentice to Robt. Blaikwood, 80.

Gibraltar, 203.

Gipsies, 63, 64.

Glass-works, 82, 153.

Glenelg, Lord, 32, 160.

Glenlee, Lord, 30.

Goodenough, Commodore, 218.

“Goodwill and Blessing,” 400.

Gordon-Cumming, Major Frederick, Note, 194.

—— John, William, and Frank, 42.

—— Henry, 32, 33, 196.

—— Jane, Lady, 107, 196.

—— double surname, Gordon of Gordonstoun, Cumming of Altyre, 26, Note.

—— clan tartans, badges, and mottoes, 14.

GORDONSTOUN, 27, 56, 72.

—— charter-room, 77.

—— lairds of, 85–100.

—— library, 99, note.

—— great picture by Gavin Hamilton, 75.

—— Sir William Gordon’s will, 100.

Gordon Castle, ancient name, 72, 102.

Grant, Field-Marshal Sir Patrick, 161.

—— General Ulysses, 333, 334, 342–346.

Grant, George, 125, 140.

—— of Glen Morriston, 189.

—— Lodge, 162, 159 _note_.

GRANT OF GRANT, Lady Ann and Lady Penuel rouse the clan, 160.

—— —— Earls of Findlater and Seafield, 27, 28.

Grantown on Spey, 159.

Granville, Earl, 16, 18.

_Great Eastern_, s.s., 152.

Gregory, Mrs., 211.

Grey, Sir George, New Zealand, 221.

Gull’s Castle, 65.

Gunning, the three beauties, 20.

HAIR, offerings of, 291, 467;
court hairdressing in Japan, 241.

Hakoni Lake, 311.

Hamilton Gordon, the Hon. Lady, 216.

Handsome Hays, 124.

Hanlin Library burnt, 365.

Hara kiri, 178.

Hardwar on the Ganges, 201.

Harehope, 106, 140, 154.

Harford Battersby of Keswick, 130.

Havelock, Sir Arthur, 222.

Hawaiian Islands, 347.

Hell’s Hole, 63;
seven hells of Buddhism, 331.

Helston in Cornwall, 25.

Hill Murray, the Rev. William, 353;
inventions, 355, 359;
blindness, 368.

Himalayas, 200.

_Hindoo_, s.s., 207;
foundering of, 208.

Historic Festival, Japan, 336.

Hong Kong, 243.

Hooker, Sir Joseph, 350.

Hopeman, 57.

—— “Holy Well” of Brae-mou or Burn-mouth, 70, 416.

Hospitable days, 130.

Hunt, Alfred, R.A., 195.

IDOLS, how punished and rewarded, 303–306.

—— their intestines, 304.

Images under repair, 302.

IMMORTALITY, BY NATURE, NOT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE, Archbishop Whately,
Martin Luther, Bishop Gore, W. E. Gladstone, 449, 450.

Impenitence, 110.

Imperial College of Engineering, 232.

India, Life in, 198.

Indian Mutiny, 155.

Inkerman, Battle of, 134.

Intercessory Prayer, 454.

Inventor of the numeral-type for China, 353–370.

Inveraray, 214.

INVERNESS Gathering, 131–151;
cathedral, 158.

Islay, Campbell of, 16, 18.

Ivy-leaves, their motto, 14.

JAPAN and China, 231–346;
cremation and earth-burial, 244–252.

_Jessica’s First Prayer_, 186 _note_.

Jin-riki-ya, 236.

Jupp, the Rev. Charles, 168.

KANDY in Ceylon, 211.

Kinsfolk, numerous, 5.

Kite-flying in Japan, 302.

Kobu-dai-Gakko, 232.

Kwan-non, Goddess of Mercy, 275–6, 296.

LADY’S Cruise on a French Man-of-War, 227.

Langford Brooke of the Mere, 16.

Langham, The Rev. Fred., 219, 222.

Larks in Moray, fewer, 393.

Le Hunte, Sir George Ruthven, 221.

Lennox, Lady Arthur, 16.

—— Lady Walter Gordon, 193.

Le Seignelay, 227.

Letters, old, 3, 40–43.

“Letters of horning,” 83, 84.

Liddill, The Honble. Misses, 154.

Liddon, Canon, 205.

Lindisfarne, 140.

—— Archdeacon of, 141–148.

Longfellow, 348.

Lord Lovat’s cold bath, 79.

—— Scouts, 78.

“Lords of Regality,” 405.

Lotus blossom festival, 282.

—— emblem of Buddha, 253.

Lucifer matches, a recent blessing, 433.

Lyndhurst in 1854, 129.

MACDOWAL GRANT of Arndilly, 167.

M‘Gregor, Sir William, 221.

Macleod, Dr. Norman, 107.

Madame de Staël, 103.

Magazine Articles, 477–480.

Malta, 197, 202.

Manchuria, first copy of the Bible, 361.

—— 25,000 staunch Christians, 362.

Mandarin dialects in China, 361.

Maple, scarlet foliage, 286.

Mar and Kellie, Earl of, 31.

Marianne North, Miss, 350.

Martyrs, the noble army of, 366.

Medicines, quaint, 96, 290 _note_, 310, 468–477.

Medwyn, Lord (Forbes of), 30.

Menzies of Menzies, Sir Robert, 28, 192.

MICHAEL KIRK, 44 _note_, 92, 137, 182, 188.

Middleton, Lord, 205.

—— Lady, 455.

Mikado, the, 234, 239, 335.

Minton, the Rev. Samuel, 205 _note_.

Mission to the Blind in China, 352.

_Montana_, s.s., 209.

Monto, or Shin-shiû, reformed Buddhism, 292–295.

Montebello, Duc de, 22.

Monument over 5000 pairs of Korean ears, 276.

Moray Floods, 49, 421.

—— fertility, 385.

—— province of, 381.

Morrison, Lady Mary, 19.

Moy, The Moy Aunts, 31.

—— my first journey, 34.

Murray, The Rev. Will. Hill, 353;
inventions, 355–359;
blindness, 368.

NAVVIES on Speyside, 167.

Noel Paton (Sir), 188.

“Nô,” or Mythological Plays, 271.

North, Miss Marianne, 350.

Northern Meeting, 131, 151.

Northumberland, 102, 105, 140.

—— Dukes of, 141, 144.

‘Not so bad as that,’ 437.

Notes of a Naturalist, 175 (Roualeyn).

Numeral-type for China, 353.

Nurses, my, 48.

OAK FORESTS (Burghead), 415.

Ochtertyre, “God’s-acre,” 193, 376.

Ogilvie, Grant of Grant, 193.

Old Nan, 48.

Old Red Sandstone fossils, 38–39.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 348.

Opera, crude criticism of, 121.

Ossulston, Lady Olivia, 154.

Otomitonga Pass, Japan, 311.

Oysters and Lobsters, no more, 410.

PARENTAGE, 5.

Parkes, Sir Harry, 333–334.

Penrose of Penrose, Grace Pearce, 25.

—— 209.

“Pen’s sylvania,” 158.

Perthshire, kind neighbours, 192, 193.

Percy, Earl, 144.

Pibroch, the last, 187.

Pigeons, superstitions concerning, 97.

“Pigs” of jam, school stores, 115.

Pilgrims in Japan, 309.

Pillows in Japan, etc., 292.

Pit and gallows, 87.

Pitgaveny, 414, 419.

Pittyvaich, 33, 196.

Planting Forests, 52.

Plymouth, 207.

Poetic heroes in Japan, 276.

Pollanarua, 211.

Portfolios, a wearisome possession, 203, 213, 351.

—— of China, 352.

Portland, Dukes of, 92.

Posting, 40, 103.

Prayer, a remarkable answer to, 365.

—— Wheels, 253–266.

Primitive Plays, 272.

Prisons, as reformatories in Japan, 239.

Punishment of obdurate idols, 303.

QUIRANG, 194.

RABBITS in Morayshire, 388;
Protection Act, 393.

Raigmore, Mackintosh of, 28, 131.

Railway, first line completed in the north, 408 _note_.

—— Highland, 441.

Randolph’s Leap, 10.

Relugas, 10, 130.

Rheumatic Fever, 149.

Rheumatism, cure for, 149 _note_.

Rivers of Morayshire, 10.

Robinson (Clifford), 33.

Rosaries, 267–269, 309, 464–467.

Rose-isle, 6.

Roualeyn, 5, 36, 37, 42, 116–119, 152;
his name, 41.

Round Square, 73.

_Royal Albert_, launch of, 126.

Russell, Lord William, 16.

—— Sir George, 16.

—— Mrs. William, 124.

Ruthven, Mary Lady, 22.

Ruyter, 116, 119.

SACRED BOOK WHEELS, 253–266.

Salisbury system of diet, 149 _note_.

Salt superstitions, 252.

Samuel Pepys, 89.

Samurai of Japan, 236, 238.

Sandhills, 55, 387, 395.

Sandwich Isles, 347.

“Says Tweed to Till,” 107.

School-days, 108.

Sculpture Cave, 59, 68.

Seafield, Earls of, 151 _note_, 159.

Seals, 395.

Sebastopol, 133.

_Sequoia Gigantea_, 230.

Sergison of Cuckfield Park, 191, 195.

Seventy-eighth Highlanders’ Welcome Home, 169.

Shawfield, Campbell of, 16, 18.

Shinto Worship, 270, 313.

Siege of the Legations, 367.

Simla, 200.

Sinclair, Jamie, Prince Worenzow’s Crimean gardener, 36.

Singapore, 217.

Sir Robert’s Stable, 66, 93.

Skipness, Campbells of, 24, 157.

Skye, Isle of, 194.

Slaginnan, Legend of, 9.

Sligachan in Skye, 194.

Smugglers, 67.

Social drinking customs, 461.

“Spate” on the Findhorn, 39.

Spey river, 159, 384.

Spiritualism, at Boston, 349.

Sporting trophies dispersed, 174 _note_.

Sportsman’s paradise, 407.

Sportsmen, true, 42, 117, 173.

Spurgeon, 152.

Spynie, Loch of, 87, 384, 403.

—— Lord, title created, 424;
killed, 425.

—— Palace of, 384, 406, 413, 427.

Squirrel foes, 389–392.

Stanmore, Lord, 216.

Star-grass, 413.

Starlings in Moray, 393.

—— in Banff, 393.

Straw shoes, 329.

Stuart, Randolph, 9.

—— Alexander, Wolf of Badenoch, 9, 379.

St. Columba, Legend of, 376.

St. Margaret’s College, Crieff, _now_ College House, 373.

St. Quintin, Geoffrey, 193.

Sutherland, Earls of, 85, 87.

—— Duchess of, 124.

Sutledge river, 201.

Sutors of Cromarty, 60.

Swans, wild, 384, 395, 407, 412.

Sydney, 218.

TANKERVILLE, Earl, 157.

Tarbat, Viscount, 81.

TEETOTALERS IN JUDEA, COMMENDED, 464.

“The Lion Hunter,” 42, 116.

The _Te Deum_, 366.

Theatres in Japan, 270–274.

—— at Trincomalee, 272.

Titaua, 228.

Tonga, Taheiti, and Samoa, 227, 230.

TOTAL ABSTINENCE made difficult, 461.

—— commended by wise physicians, 462, 463.

—— commended in the Bible, 464.

Travel, wearisome, 13, 46, 86, 103, 170.

Trespass, 95.

Triangular Shadow of Adam’s Peak, 212.

—— of Fujiyama, 317.

Tulli Duvie (Relugas), 10 _note_.

Ugadale, Macneal of, 24.

Uxbridge, Countess of, 16, 102.

VANISHED WATERS, 383, 403.

Varna Bay, 133.

Volcanic activity in Japan, 319–326.

Von Hügel, Baron Anatole, 227.

Voyages, my first, 111, 123.

WAR-CRY of the Grants, 159.

Warkworth, Lord, coming of age, 144.

Wasp’s nests, 46.

WEDDINGS, my sisters: Seymour, 192;
Eleanora, 141;
Ida, 134;
Emilia, 191;
my brother William, 193.

Wemyss, Earl of, 21.

Wheels, sacred symbols, 260.

—— for images, 265.

White terraces, New Zealand, 221.

—— wild cattle, 157.

Wig, cost of a, 386 _note_.

“Wild men and wild beasts,” 155.

Willoughby, 205 _note_.

—— The Hon. Mrs., 454.

Winchester College, founder’s kin, 14.

Window-tax, 73, 99.

Winthrop, Mrs., 348.

Winton Castle, 22.

Wishaw, 157.

Wistaria blossom, 281.

Witch-burning, 91.

Wizard, Sir Robert, 89–92.

Woodhorne Church, 148, 156, 171.

Wood-pigeons in Moray, 392.

Wolf of Badenoch, Alexander Stuart, 9, 379.

Wollaton Hall, 206 _note_.

Worcester, climb the beacon, 150.

Worship by machinery, 253–269, and 464–467.

YEDDO, 235.

ZURICK, marriage at, 15.

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Footnote 1:

See Notes A and D in Appendix.

Footnote 2:

Sir Thomas Dick Lauder owned Relugas (formerly called Tulli Duvie) by
right of his marriage with its heiress, Miss Cumming.

Footnote 3:

Truly, it is flesh!

Footnote 4:

In the very popular _Memoirs of a Highland Lady_ (Miss Grant of
Rothiemurchus), there are on pp. 284–5 and 387 some statements and
misstatements, which should be read by the light of pp. 163–4—namely
the author’s own reference to Sir William’s fleeting attraction to
herself in his early days.

No shadow ever marred the perfect love and happiness of this noble
couple. The wonderfully gifted and beautiful woman was justly idolised
by her husband and very large family, as well as by a wide outer
circle, rich and poor.

Footnote 5:

In the magnificent Church of the old Knights of St. John in Malta,
there is a beautiful monument to his memory.

Footnote 6:

So many misstatements have been unscrupulously published concerning
these beauties, that I may be forgiven for quoting a few paragraphs
from an excellent article on “THE BEAUTIFUL MISSES GUNNING,” which
appeared in the _Cornhill Magazine_ for 1867.

“The Gunnings were a branch of an old English family, which had
settled in Ireland in the reign of James I., their estate being Castle
Coote, in Roscommon.

“In 1731, Mr. Gunning married the Honourable Bridget Bourke, daughter
of Lord Mayo—‘a lady of most elegant figure.’ In the two following
years were born their daughters Maria and Elizabeth. At this time they
were living at Hemingford Gray, in Huntingdonshire, but on the death
of Mr. Gunning’s father, the family was transplanted to the wilds of
Connaught, where two other beautiful daughters and a son were born.
One of these daughters died as a child. Kitty married Mr. Travers in
Ireland. The son distinguished himself in the American war, and became
a General and K.C.B.

“In 1748, the family removed to Dublin, and (at the ages of fifteen
and sixteen) the beauties appeared at the Vice-Regal Court, Lord
Harrington being Lord Lieutenant.

“In 1750, they removed to London, and were presented at Court.
Thenceforward they carried society by storm. Horace Walpole declared
of ‘those goddesses’ that ‘they make more noise than any of their
predecessors since the days of Helen of Troy.’ They could not walk in
the parks on account of the crowds that surrounded them in sheer
admiration. When travelling through the country, crowds lined the
roads to gaze at them, and hundreds of people stayed up all night
round the inns where they halted, on the chance of getting a peep at
them in the morning. Imagine a shoemaker realising three guineas in
one day by the exhibition, at a penny a head, of one of their shoes!

“In February 1752, Elizabeth married the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.
When she next appeared at Court, the excitement was so great that the
highest ladies in the land climbed on chairs and tables to look at
her. Her marriage with this proud but dissipated duke was not very
happy. He died in 1758.

“At five-and-twenty she was handsomer than ever. The Duke of
Bridgewater was among her suitors, and it was after her refusal that
he devoted himself to the making of the Bridgewater Canal and other
useful public works.

“In March 1759, she married Lord John Campbell, afterwards Duke of
Argyll. After her second marriage she almost entirely disappeared from
the fashionable world.

“In 1760, she was created Baroness Hamilton of Hambeldon, in
Leicestershire. She was then in attendance upon Queen Charlotte. She
died in 1790, aged fifty-seven.”

Footnote 7:

My happy memories of Machrihanish Bay were recorded in my first book,
_In the Hebrides_, published by Chatto and Windus.

Footnote 8:

Quoted in the aforesaid book, page 299.

Footnote 9:

The double surname resulting from the union of these two estates was
assumed only by my grandfather, and his son Sir William, consequently
it belongs exclusively to my father’s direct descendants.

The only survivors of the last generation who bear it are myself and
my brother Colonel William Gordon-Cumming, now living at Forres House.
Of my other brothers, only three married, namely, Sir Alexander,
Henry, and Frank; their only two daughters married respectively Lord
Middleton and the Honourable Claude Portman. They, however, left nine
sons, who are the fathers of my four little grand-nephews, and of ten
little grand-nieces, four in Scotland, five in New Zealand, and one in
Texas. These are the only members of the family who in 1904 own our
name.

I mention this because we are so frequently asked, “What relation to
you is So-and-so Gordon Cumming?” mentioning one of the many bearers
of the name, unknown to us.

This seems to have arisen from the fact, that when my brother Roualeyn
returned from his wonderful South African hunting expeditions, many
members of Clan Cumming christened a son Gordon in his honour.

When these grew up, and the use of double names without any reference
to property became the fashion, the families of these “namesakes”
assumed the father’s Christian name as a surname.

Imitation is said to be the truest flattery, but it has its
inconveniences, and in the case of names is liable to produce
confusion.

Footnote 10:

See Appendix, Note H.

Footnote 11:

I do not know whether to class as affectation, or sheer vulgarity, a
very offensive innovation which I have heard in some Scottish
churches, whose choirs have been carefully taught to pronounce
Jerusalem as Jerry-you-salem!

Footnote 12:

These quarries have long since been closed.

Footnote 13:

_Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in South Africa._ By R. Gordon-Cumming.
Published by John Murray.

Footnote 14:

_Wild Men and Wild Beasts._ By Colonel W. G. Gordon-Cumming. Published
by David Douglas.

Footnote 15:

The window of the room in which fifteen of my father’s children were
born, and from which we saw first my mother, then my father, pass
away. My sister Alice was born in London.

Footnote 16:

Her eldest son, Penrose, was at that time in Canada with his regiment,
the 71st Highlanders. He wrote from Montreal, 27th May 1842: “I feel
as if crushed to the earth. She was too young and beautiful, and too
necessary to her family to be taken from them.... Oh may we, her
children, profit by every advice and the example she showed us
daily.... There never was a mother who loved her children more than
she, or who thought of the absent ones with such affection, as her own
letters show.”

Footnote 17:

St. Michael’s Chapel was erected in 1705 on the site of the ancient
vicarage kirk of Ogston. The present small chapel, with a fine Gothic
window at each end, was built simply as a mortuary chapel for the
family of Gordonstoun.

Footnote 18:

See Note B in Appendix.

Footnote 19:

See Note C in Appendix.

Footnote 20:

“The lands of Ettles and fyshing, called the Coissey,” were granted to
Thomas Innes of Pethrick by Patrick, Bishop of Moray, in a charter
dated at Elgin and Drainie, the 8th and 18th May 1561, and signed by
the bishop and twelve of the canons of Elgin cathedral, their seals
being also appended. In 1638 these lands and fishings were sold to Sir
Robert Gordon by the grandson of the said Thomas Innes.

Footnote 21:

Fisher’s basket.

Footnote 22:

Ancestor of the present Duke of Fife.

Footnote 23:

Forbears, _i.e._ ancestors.

Footnote 24:

Easter Day.

Footnote 25:

Curia vitæ et membrorum furca et fossa.

Footnote 26:

The library, which numbered about three thousand volumes, was sold in
Edinburgh in the year 1801 for a small sum, but some years later the
vendor—Mr. Constable—bought it back for £1000 and a pipe of port wine.
It was finally dispersed in 1814 by J. G. Cockburn, when it realised
£1530. But from the catalogue of that sale it is obvious that books of
most curious interest had all been withdrawn.

Footnote 27:

Market.

Footnote 28:

See Appendix, Note E.

Footnote 29:

Kirn, a few, a handful. Perthshire and Morayshire.

Footnote 30:

I believe that many more owners of gardens would of their abundance
send flowers to friends and hospitals in cities, were it not from the
imaginary necessity of providing boxes. To such may I give some simple
suggestions? Carefully select flowers scarcely half-blown. Remove all
superfluous green from their stalks. _Tie them in bunches with a long
strip of wet newspaper about three inches wide, tied round the ends,
that they may drink on the journey. Leave them all in water for at
least an hour before packing._

Spread on the floor a sheet of brown paper, and on that a stout
newspaper. Then sprays of green things to protect the flowers and
gladden the recipient. If you have long ferns, and iris buds, a stick
of the same length is good protection. Then lay in your bunches of
flowers and roll all up securely in the newspapers, and then in the
brown paper, when your parcel will resemble a well-packed salmon, and
will travel by parcel-post for a very moderate sum.

If you leave this to your gardener to do, he will probably supply as
green useless prunings of Portugal and common laurels and unlovable
mahonia, sadly tantalising to the recipient.

Here is a list of desirable out-of-door green things that will live.
Sprays of beech-tree not too young; small trails of ivy. Most ferns,
especially _Felix-mas_, provided old fronds are selected, free from
seed; but not the lovely _Lastrea Dilatata_ or _Lastrea Felix Femina_,
which invariably die. Sprigs of _Rosa Rugosa_, boxwood, Solomon’s
seal, carrot-leaves, periwinkle, a few bits of glossy rhododendron,
all varieties of _Aber-vitæ_, sprays of _Diodera_. Most precious of
all are bits of _Retinospora Plumosa_ and _Thuyopsis Dolobrata_, which
will live for months.

For home use, _where water is at once available_, I would add sprays
of wild raspberry, and leaves of wild cow-parsley, strawberry and
potentilla leaves, bishop’s weed, leaves of large lupins, of
columbine, of blue delphinium, of _Dialitra Spectabilis_, of
pyrethrium; and daintiest of all is the fumitory (_Fumaria
officinalis_), which gardeners ruthlessly hoe up as a worthless weed,
unless specially bidden to spare some for pet vases.

Perhaps many friends who have no gardens could, if they realised the
above simple method of packing, send parcels of real Scotch heather
(ling, NOT purple bell heather, which dies at once). Also yellow
cornflowers, and Scottish bluebells: the latter carry very well, and
all the buds will bloom. All they crave is a minute’s attention to
their morning “toilette,” just to nip off the dead bells. But in
remote districts, mercy to the walking postman must limit his parcels.

Footnote 31:

Appendix, Note F.

Footnote 32:

In Parker Gillmore’s letters on “The Game of South Africa” I find this
passage:—“In many parts of this remote portion of Africa, I have come
across natives who knew well the mighty Nimrod, Gordon-Cumming—some
even that have hunted with him—and one and all agreed that he was the
bravest and most daring white man they ever knew. To them I have
recounted the principal episodes which he narrates in his work, and
which have been condemned by many of his countrymen as utterly
improbable, nay, impossible, but one and all, without a single
dissenting voice, attested to their truth.

“Sicomey, the father of Khama, now King of Bamangwato, told me of
deeds performed by Gordon-Cumming, which, if possible, outrivalled
those he has recounted in his work, and I have often thought that
these were withheld from the British public for the reason that he had
not authentic witnesses to produce who could endorse his statements.”

Footnote 33:

Shoes.

Footnote 34:

“Shrieking in that style.”

Footnote 35:

For the benefit of possible sufferers, I may mention that if I ever do
have a suggestion of rheumatism, I at once attribute it to unsuspected
indigestion, and for a short while adopt Dr. Salisbury’s system of
diet, which consists in refraining from all foods most liable to
fermentation, _i.e._ all vegetables, milk, sugar, fish, alcohol in any
form, and limiting the “menu” to three good meals daily of _very
finely minced_ and _well-cooked beef_, with no accompaniment except
some crisp toast, and if necessary a little strong meat-soup or black
coffee.

But the less fluid with meals the better, as it weakens the gastric
juices, and fluid is supplied by a good drink of hot water four times
a day, _i.e._ on first awakening, in the middle of the forenoon and
afternoon, and the last thing at night, always about an hour and a
half before or after eating. This supplies a bath for the internal
machinery, and acts on the same principle as washing the plate you
have used at one meal before it is required for the next meal.

_N. B._—Always ask for a small jug of boiling water, a bottle of cold
water, and a cup, that you may prepare your drink to suit your own
taste, otherwise you are apt to get a tumbler of scalding water all
ready poured out. By mixing for yourself and sipping slowly you can
probably manage to swallow a double allowance, and soon learn to enjoy
it. Some people think that a pinch of salt makes it more palatable. I
may mention that I know of hundreds of people once martyrs to the many
phases of indigestion, dyspepsia, and their _effects_ (called by many
names, but all due to the same _cause_), who attribute their
restoration to health to this simple course of dieting, as taught in
this country by the late Mrs. Elma Stuart (daughter of a Cumming of
Logie).

Footnote 36:

The principal home of the Earls of Seafield.

Footnote 37:

Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh.

Footnote 38:

This historic house has recently been purchased by Colonel Cooper, who
on August 19, 1903, presented it, with forty-five acres of land,
henceforth to be known as Cooper Park, to the city of Elgin. The
boundary-wall, which separated the grounds from the ruins of the
beautiful cathedral, has been removed, and the house itself adapted to
the purposes of a public library, as also for the exhibition of a loan
collection of pictures, curios, etc.

Footnote 39:

Amongst other old Highland customs which Lady Ann kept up at Castle
Grant was dining in the great hall with “the salt” in the middle of
the long table, and the diners placed above or below the salt
according to their social standing.

Footnote 40:

Until the Reform Bill was passed, the burghs of Banff, Cullen, Elgin,
Inverury and Kintore, were represented by one Member of Parliament,
the town council of each burgh selecting a delegate to represent the
community at the election, which took place at each town in rotation.

Footnote 41:

Lady Jane afterwards married General Sir Edward Forestier-Walker.

Footnote 42:

Hugh Willoughby Jermyn was subsequently Bishop of Colombo, in Ceylon,
where for two delightful years his house was my headquarters, till
total breakdown of health compelled his return to Britain, where in
1876 he was appointed to succeed our cousin, Alexander Forbes, as
Bishop of Brechin. In 1886, on the death of Bishop Eden at Inverness,
he was unanimously elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. He
entered into rest, September 17th, 1903, aged eighty-three.

His life for the last fifty years had been one long struggle of a
brave, determined spirit for victory over a very frail body, which
sorely hampered him.

Doubtless that ever brave, bright nature was in some mysterious manner
being “made perfect through suffering,” but there we touch on one of
the mysteries for the solution of which we must be content to wait.

Footnote 43:

Strange to say, ere one brief year had elapsed, his brother Roualeyn’s
noble hunting-trophies were conveyed to London, there to be likewise
sold by auction at a strangely ill-attended sale. Thus were scattered
to the winds the treasures of two of the most successful hunters of
dangerous wild beasts. Almost all Roualeyn’s trophies were purchased
by Barnum, and, sad to say, were burnt in his great fire.

Footnote 44:

The grim grey fort has now been swept away, and on its site stands the
large Roman Catholic Monastery and Church of St. Benedict.

Footnote 45:

Meadow pipit (_Anthus pratensis_).

Footnote 46:

See Appendix, Note G.

Footnote 47:

A few weeks later Sandy was enrolled as a police-constable in
Liverpool, where for a brief period he worked well, then caught a
fever and died.

Footnote 48:

He was generally acknowledged to be the most graceful reel-dancer, and
to throw the lightest fly in salmon fishing, of any man in Scotland.

Footnote 49:

Lady Middleton.

Footnote 50:

I have just learnt that the sale of this pathetic little story by
Hesba Stretton has reached the amazing figure of 1,747,000 copies.

Footnote 51:

He served in the 71st Highlanders, and the 4th Light Dragoons, and
took a prominent part in the volunteer movement from its beginning.

Footnote 52:

Bishop of Moray and Ross. For many years Primus of the Episcopal
Church in Scotland.

Footnote 53:

Major Frederick Gordon-Cumming of the Cheshire Regiment was shot dead
while on convoy-duty against the Chins, a hill-tribe in Burmah, 23rd
March 1890. Peace had actually been signed, and he was marching back
to Fort White, when he was mortally wounded by a hill-man lying
concealed among the rocks.

Footnote 54:

The Rev. S. Minton was one of the first who had courage to declare his
own belief in CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY. See Appendix, Note F.

Footnote 55:

Though I cannot give accurate details of Willoughby history, it is
interesting to me, now that my headquarters are near some of the
Willoughby D’Eresby estates (Drummond Castle and Glen Artney
deer-forest), to know that at some period this great family divided
itself and its numerous estates, one branch being now represented by
the Earl of Ancaster, the other by Lord Middleton.

Although by far the most interesting Middleton property is the
magnificent and quite unique old Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, the
family have lived chiefly at Birdsall as being the most convenient
hunting-centre, the expensive honour of being M.F.H. being virtually
hereditary. Lord Middleton’s hounds, kennels, hunters, stud-farm, and
home-farm are all objects of keen interest in the hunting and
agricultural world, the latter being especially interested in his
splendid shire horses.

Footnote 56:

Afterwards Sir William Gregory.

Footnote 57:

In July 1904 he was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
Newfoundland.

Footnote 58:

See _In the Himalayas_, C. F. Gordon-Cumming (published by Chatto and
Windus).

Footnote 59:

See _In the Hebrides_, C. F. Gordon-Cumming (published by Chatto and
Windus).

Footnote 60:

Ezekiel i. 16, 20, 21; x. 2, 10, 13, 16, 17, 19; xi. 22.

Footnote 61:

See Appendix, Note I.

Footnote 62:

Any one interested in Japanese rosaries can see some very remarkable
specimens in the collection of Japanese treasures presented to the
British Museum by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K.C.B.

Footnote 63:

_Wistaria sinensis._

Footnote 64:

Very remarkable is the place assigned to the fox in the medicine
folklore both of Britain and Japan. The Early English prescription for
disease of the joints was to take _a living fox_ and seethe him till
the bones alone be left, and then bathe repeatedly in this foxy
essence. “Wonderfully it healeth!” says the old chronicler. The fox’s
liver possessed special curative powers, and indeed each portion of
the fox—his gall, the fat of his loin, his lung sodden, etc.—each had
special virtues, while those who suffered from foot-addle, _i.e._
gout, were recommended to wear shoes lined with vixen hide.

Footnote 65:

See _Wanderings in China_, by C. F. Gordon-Cumming, chapter xii.

Footnote 66:

See Appendix, Note J.

Footnote 67:

See Appendix K.

Footnote 68:

The Prince Imperial was born in 1879.

Footnote 69:

My nephew, A. Gordon-Cumming.

Footnote 70:

Published by Blackwood.

Footnote 71:

See Appendix, Note L.

Footnote 72:

Her life-story has been sketched by her sister in _Recollections of a
Happy Life_.

Footnote 73:

I cannot refrain from quoting a comment by Dr. Alexander, Archbishop
of Armagh, on Agnosticism: “Agnostic, ah! a very high-sounding word.
It’s Greek, you know. It is not quite so fine when you render it in
Latin—Ignoramus!”

Footnote 74:

From _Corn and Poppies_, by Cosmo Monkhouse, published by Elkin
Matthews.

Footnote 75:

The Champion Medal and Breeder’s Medal for the best beast in the
Smithfield Show, 1881, were awarded to Sir W. G. Gordon-Cumming, of
Altyre and Gordonstoun, who for many successive years carried off
first prizes, his factor, Mr. Robert Walker, being one of the most
successful cattle-breeders in Britain.

Footnote 76:

“Loons”—lads.

Footnote 77:

We hear of forty guineas being paid for a handsome periwig, which,
moreover, entailed continual care and expense to keep it in curl and
beauty.

Footnote 78:

This singular payment of a portion of an animal seems to have been
common. I find that the rental of the Bishop’s Mills (or as they are
described “The Bischopis Mylne,” near Elgin Cathedral), in A.D. 1565,
included, amongst other items, three fowls, four dozen of capons,
three sheep, three lambs, one pig, and _three quarters of a mart_ (or
bullock)!

Footnote 79:

Rhind’s _Sketches of Moray_, 1839.

Footnote 80:

The inhabitants of Lossiemouth tell with pride that their railway
across the lake to Elgin was _the first line completed in the north_!
It was opened for traffic in 1852. The coast-line of rail from London
to Inverness, _viâ_ Aberdeen, was opened in 1858. The Highland line
_viâ_ Perth was opened in 1863.

Footnote 81:

Lobster-chests.

Footnote 82:

Probably of Hugh de Moravia, Lord of Duffus.

Footnote 83:

_Annals of Elgin._ By Robert Young.

Footnote 84:

While thus referring to one unintentional source of evil, I would
venture to plead against another, by which grave harm is too often
done, namely, the thoughtless repeating of rather irreverent stories
connected with favourite hymns and verses of Scripture. A slight touch
of wit, or mere absurdity, causes such to stick to the memory of the
hearer, never to be eradicated, destroying the sanctity of what has
hitherto been a purely sacred association. I grieve to say that too
often the clergy are themselves the sowers of these evil tares.

Footnote 85:

The Tulasi (or basil) is deemed very sacred, because Sita, the wife of
Rama, once assumed the form of this humble shrub.

Footnote 86:

_Elæocarpus Ganitrus._

Footnote 87:

_Monodon monoceros._

Footnote 88:

In my _Wanderings in China_, chapter viii., amongst other very
“strange medicines,” I have described how the hot blood of a newly
decapitated criminal is secured as a valuable cure for a disease
supposed to be consumption.

Footnote 89:

See the _Collection of Useful Remedies_, by John Moncrief of
Tippermalluch; a person of extraordinary skill and knowledge in the
Art of Physick. Printed in the Cowgate of Edinburgh in A.D. 1712.

Footnote 90:

See _In the Hebrides_. C. F. Gordon-Cumming. London: Chatto and
Windus.

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