[Illustration: PLATE I.

SELECTIONAL VIEW AND GROUND PLAN OF UNDERGROUND GALLERY, CALLED _UAMH
SGALABHAD_, NEAR MOL A DEAS, HUISHNISH, ISLAND OF SOUTH UIST.

_Frontispiece._]




FIANS, FAIRIES
AND
PICTS


BY

DAVID MACRITCHIE

AUTHOR OF
"THE TESTIMONY OF TRADITION"


"Sometimes ... it seems that the stones are really
speaking--speaking of the old things, of the time when the strange
fishes and animals lived that are turned into stone now, and the
lakes were here; and then of the time when the little Bushmen lived
here, so small and so ugly, and used to sleep in the wild dog
holes, and in the 'sloots,' and eat snakes, and shoot the bucks
with their poisoned arrows ... Now the Boers have shot them all, so