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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_,