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accepted by the Government. One must presume that General Harris had com- municated such information as he had to his superiors at the time of the occurrence, although he strangely says in the letter referred to that "it is only known to his family and a few friends."

JAMES CULL.

ALBERT MOORE AND THE 'D.N.B.' (10 S. viii. 46, 152). My friend Mr. Thomas Arm- strong, C.B., writes from Abbot's Langley:

" I am pretty sure that Albert Moore never did .a ' peacock room ' for F. Lehmann's house in Berkeley Square ; but I have a dim recollection of .a cartoon for a frieze, on brown paper, of which the motif was peacocks. I wrote to my old friend Aitchison [George, R. A.] about it, and he replies tlvit the frieze was done and that he has the draw- ing, as well as those Moore did for an inlaid table for Lehmann. Perhaps I was abroad when the painting was done, for otherwise 1 ought to re- member it, for Moore was living close at hand and I saw him nearly every day."

Mr. Armstrong futher informs me that Albert Moore painted an octagonal vestibule at Claremont, Pendlebury, near Manchester, for the late Sir Thomas Heywood, Bart., -with small figure subjects in the middle of the panels (battledore and shuttlecock), and ornament on the rest. This work, which was, I believe, executed in pure fresco, does not appear to have been noticed in Baldry's
 * Life of Moore.' JOHN HEBB.

HIGHLANDERS " BARBADOSED " AFTER THE 1715 AND '45 REBELLIONS (10 S. viii. 68, 135, 176, 235). I am thankful for informa- tion furnished in regard to barbadosed Highlandmen. I would emphasize the fact, however, that anything throwing light on the history of those broken clansmen after deportation would be particularly valuable ; It is hardly to be conceived that upon leaving port they immediately lost all touch with the homeland; yet very little information thereafter is to be had about them. They sailed out into the Atlantic, .and, for all we subsequently hear of them, they might have passed into the tomb. Yet surely one or two of the exiles must have described the voyage, and the island of Barbados in letters. Despite the fact that the sentence of transportation was for the term of his natural life, did no exile, drawn by a desire to see his own land and kith again, make his way back to Scotland after a term of years ? Have none of the accounts of America, communicated thus or in any other way, been preserved in book or manuscript ? In a foot-note to Cavaliers and Roundheads in Barbados

(British Guiana, 1887, p: 83), it is noted that

"the Highlanders appear to have got over their dread of being shipped to Barbados before the close of the seventeenth century, as it is stated in a recently issued volume of the Lauderdale Papers that ' the Barbados doth no longer terrifay them.' " Why did " the Barbados " at any time " terrifay them " ? Whence came that dreadful impression of the island that struck terror into the hearts of the Highlanders ? It is evident that reports, written or oral, of the fate of the white bondservant in Bar- bados must have reached Scotland. Are any of those reports extant ?

An account of his life in, and escape from, Barbados, written by Henry Pitman, who was deported after the Monmouth Rebellion, was reprinted in Arber's ' English Garner.' Something of a similar sort is wanted that will throw a ray of light on the barbadosed Highlander. Should any book, pamphlet, or manuscript touching the Highlander or anybody after deportation to Barbados, come into the possession of any one, I shall be glad to hear from him.

J. GRAHAM CRUICKSHANK.

Audit Office, British Guiana.

LATTA SURNAME (10 S. viii. 190). Fer- guson in his ' Teutonic Name System,' 1864, p. 194, identifies this name with the Anglo- Saxon adjective lath, hateful, in the sense of one who is a terror to others, and with the Gothic lathon, Old High German ladon, to invite in the sense, according to Forste- mann, of challege, simple English forms being Ladd, Lath, Lattey, Latta. Latimer is given as a compound form.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MOON AND CRABS (10 S. viii. 186). The passage quoted is not from Pyrard, but from the 1598 translation of Linschoten, as reprinted by the Hakluyt Society. In the ' Travels of Pedro Teixeira,' printed by the same society, at p. 3 we read :

" Nor less strange is it that in all that coast and isles [about the Strait of Singapore] the shell-fish are seen to be fat at new moon and void at full moon, contrary to those of all other lands and seas."

To this the translator of Teixeira, the late Mr. W. F. Sinclair, I.C.S., appends the following foot-note :

" This notion of mollusca waxing and waning with the moon is derived from Pliny the Elder
 * ('Nat. Hist.,' Bk. II. chap, xli.)."

The ' N.E.D.' has, s.v. ' Conch ' :

" c. 1520, Andrew, ' Noble Lyfe,' in 'BabeesBk.,' 232 : As the mone growth or waneth, so be the

conches or muscles fulle or nat full, but smale "

DONALD FERGUSON.