The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson – Swanston Edition. Volume 14

page 191. Mr. Nutt reminds me it was “by my sword and Ben Cruachan” the Cameron swore.

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page 194. “A periwig’d lord of London.” The first Pitt.

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page 195. “Cathay.” There must be some omission in General Stewart’s charming “History of the Highland Regiments,” a book that might well be republished and continued; or it scarce appears how our friend could have got to China.

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This is the same Princess Moë whose charms of person and disposition have been recorded by the late Lord Pembroke in “South Sea Bubbles,” and by M. Pierre Loti in the “Mariage de Loti.”

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The yacht Casco had been so called by the people of Fakarava in Tahiti.

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“The whole front of the house was lighted, and there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be in Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons.” – See “Wandering Willie’s Tale” in “Redgauntlet,” borrowed perhaps from “Christ’s Kirk of the Green.”

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In architecture, a series of piles to defend the pier of a bridge.