The writer went over the ground, and he has carefully considered the whole question. The following statement was published by him, on his return from the Island, in the Celtic Magazine for May 1882, and he has not hitherto found it necessary to modify a single sentence of what he then wrote, though he has watched all the proceedings which have since occurred including the evidence given at the trial of the Braes crofters with great care. Indeed, it has been admitted by those more immediately concerned on the landlords' side that his account was exceedingly moderate in tone, carefully couched in temperate language, and accurately stated in all its details.
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