Daily Arizona Silver Belt

In the article on the Glengarry branch of the Macdonalds James Logan, in his "The Clans of the Scottish Highlands," says:
"At the castle of Aros the lords of the isles held their parliament and passed the regal decrees, which distant tribes were bound to respect. The simple form in which important rights were conveyed by these princes may be illustrated by the following brief but binding charter, which loses in translation from the original Gaelic:
I, Donald, the chief of the Macdonalds, sitting on the hill of Dun Donald, give the MacAodh a full right to Kilm-ahomag from this day till tomorrow, and so on forever."
A lesson was afforded by one of these lords which might greatly benefit some sticklers for precedency. He had at a banquet been placed by mistake at the bottom of the table, on perceiving which considerable emotion arose among the company, who dreaded the consequences of the supposed indignity, but the great ceanncinnidh (head of his race) speedily allayed their apprehensions by exclaiming emphatically, "Where the Macdonald sits, know ye, gentlemen, that is the head of the table."