Then I understood this was an emigrant ship bound for the American colonies . We put the ferry-boat alongside , and the exiles leaned over the bulwarks , weeping and reaching out their hands to my fellow-passengers , among whom they counted some near friends . How long this might have gone on I do not know , for they seemed to have no sense of time : but at last the captain of the ship , who seemed near beside himself -LRB- and no great wonder -RRB- in the midst of this crying and confusion , came to the side and begged us to depart . Thereupon Neil sheered off ; and the chief singer in our boat struck into a melancholy air , which was presently taken up both by the emigrants and their friends upon the beach , so that it sounded from all sides like a lament for the dying . I saw the tears run down the cheeks of the men and women in the boat , even as they bent at the oars ; and the circumstances and the music of the song -LRB- which is one called `` Lochaber no more '' -RRB- were highly affecting even to myself . At Kinlochaline I got Neil Roy upon one side on the beach , and said I made sure he was one of Appin 's men . `` And what for no ? '' said he . `` I am seeking somebody , '' said I ; `` and it comes in my mind that you will have news of him . Alan Breck Stewart is his name . '' And very foolishly , instead of showing him the button , I sought to pass a shilling in his hand . At this he drew back . `` I am very much affronted , '' he said ; `` and this is not the way that one shentleman should behave to another at all . The man you ask for is in France ; but if he was in my sporran , '' says he , `` and your belly full of shillings , I would not hurt a hair upon his body . '' I saw I had gone the wrong way to work , and without wasting time upon apologies , showed him the button lying in the hollow of my palm . `` Aweel , aweel , '' said Neil ; `` and I think ye might have begun with that end of the stick , whatever ! But if ye are the lad with the silver button , all is well , and I have the word to see that ye come safe . But if ye will pardon me to speak plainly , '' says he , `` there is a name that you should never take into your mouth , and that is the name of Alan Breck ; and there is a thing that ye would never do , and that is to offer your dirty money to a Hieland shentleman . '' It was not very easy to apologise ; for I could scarce tell him -LRB- what was the truth -RRB- that I had never dreamed he would set up to be a gentleman until he told me so . Neil on his part had no wish to prolong his dealings with me , only to fulfil his orders and be done with it ; and he made haste to give me my route .
This was to lie the night in XXXXX in the public inn ; to cross Morven the next day to Ardgour , and lie the night in the house of one John of the Claymore , who was warned that I might come ; the third day , to be set across one loch at Corran and another at Balachulish , and then ask my way to the house of James of the Glens , at Aucharn in Duror of Appin .
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