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They were now reduced to the last extremity, and were wandering about in quest of food, when they were met by Lennox, an attached friend of Robert's, who had hitherto been ignor- ant of the fate of his king. At the sight of         Bruee's forlorn condition, this faithful chieftain burst into tears, and Robert, overpowered by his feelings, wept in sympathy. Journeying on- wards, Bruce and his friends were received by         Angus of the Isles, Lord of Kintyre, who enter- tained them with the warmest hospitality at his eastle of Dunavarty. From thenee the king, with a faithful few, pass- ed over to an island on the north coast of Ireland, where they remained for a season free from the pursuit of their enemies. But though the king was for the present safe, his friends in Seotland were exposed to dreadful sufferings by the cruelty of Edward. The queen and the daughter of Bruee, on hearing of the ap- proach of the English, had fled to the sanctuary of St Duthae in Tain. The Earl of Ross, who favoured the English, violated the sanetuary, and, seizing those unfortunate ladies, delivered them up to Edward. The queen was confined in dif- ferent places for nearly eight years, and her daugh- ter was sent to a convent. The Countess of Buch- an, who had placed the erown on Robert's head at         his coronation, was shut up in a small iron cage