`` Captain , '' says Alan , `` if ye see a pennant , it shall be your part to run away . And now , as I hear you 're a little short of brandy in the fore-part , I 'll offer ye a change : a bottle of brandy against two buckets of water . '' That was the last clause of the treaty , and was duly executed on both sides ; so that Alan and I could at last wash out the round-house and be quit of the memorials of those whom we had slain , and the captain and Mr. Riach could be happy again in their own way , the name of which was drink . CHAPTER XII I HEAR OF THE `` RED FOX '' Before we had done cleaning out the round-house , a breeze sprang up from a little to the east of north . This blew off the rain and brought out the sun . And here I must explain ; and the reader would do well to look at a map . On the day when the fog fell and we ran down Alan 's boat , we had been running through the Little Minch . At dawn after the battle , we lay becalmed to the east of the Isle of Canna or between that and Isle Eriska in the chain of the Long Island . Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch , the straight course was through the narrows of the Sound of Mull . But the captain had no chart ; he was afraid to trust his brig so deep among the islands ; and the wind serving well , he preferred to go by west of Tiree and come up under the southern coast of the great Isle of Mull . All day the breeze held in the same point , and rather freshened than died down ; and towards afternoon , a swell began to set in from round the outer Hebrides . Our course , to go round about the inner isles , was to the west of south , so that at first we had this swell upon our beam , and were much rolled about . But after nightfall , when we had turned the end of Tiree and began to head more to the east , the sea came right astern . Meanwhile , the early part of the day , before the swell came up , was very pleasant ; sailing , as we were , in a bright sunshine and with many mountainous islands upon different sides . Alan and I sat in the round-house with the doors open on each side -LRB- the wind being straight astern -RRB- , and smoked a pipe or two of the captain 's fine tobacco . It was at this time we heard each other 's stories , which was the more important to me , as I gained some knowledge of that wild Highland country on which I was so soon to land . In those days , so close on the back of the great rebellion , it was needful a man should know what he was doing when he went upon the heather . It was I that showed the example , telling him all my misfortune ; which he heard with great good-nature . Only , when I came to mention that good friend of mine , Mr. Campbell the minister , Alan fired up and cried out that he hated all that were of that name . `` Why , '' said I , `` he is a man you should be proud to give your hand to . ''
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