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who were a warlike group who landed in Ireland. The. chief of the clan, who was named Donald, went to Scotland with his four sons, who became the four divisions as

clans. They were at one time the most numerous and the most powerful of the Scottish clans. They lost power by fighting for the Stuarts. When William IV, King of England, ordered all the clans to sign the oath of allegiance, old Chief MacDonald left it to the last, and then got lost on

the way to sign. King William, to teach them a lesson,

sent a regiment of Campbells, who were feasted and greatly welcomed, which was the Scottish system. On a stormy night, one week after their arrival, the Campbells murdered their hosts, but to my great surprise, it was only 37 souls.

The MacDonalds in Scotland to this day do not treat any Campbell. One of the soldiers in the Second War visited a Scottish home on several occasions and seemed to be one of the family. His hosts told him to bring a friend on his next leave. But the poor chap, who was not familiar with history, brought with him a Mr. Campbell and when he introduced him, the host told them both to get out of his house, as no Campbell or friend of one, was welcome in his home.

I met a doctor at a Conference in Vancouver who was from the lowlands of Scotland and who had married a MacDonald from the highlands. They went to a dance and no sooner got there than she wanted to go home. He said, ”Why?” and she said, ”There is a Campbell on the floor.”

A MacDonald was one of Napoleon’s top commanders, as there were close ties between France and Scotland, in the early seventeenth century. As for the Mc and Mac, when one visits the graves of the earlier settlers, there are no Mac only Mc, sometimes with a Mac and a Mc. My forefather’s grave stone was Mc. My father always

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