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Memories

Chapter 45: INDEX
By C. F. Gordon Cumming
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This work reflects on personal memories and experiences, exploring themes of nostalgia, loss, and the passage of time. It delves into the author's early influences, family heritage, and significant life events, such as the death of a mother and the impact of natural disasters. The narrative captures the essence of cherished moments spent in gardens and the joy of youth, while also addressing the challenges of social interactions, particularly the difficulty of recognizing acquaintances. Through vivid imagery and introspective musings, the author evokes a sense of longing for the past and the connections that shape one's identity.

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INDEX

  • Abercromby, Louisa, Lady, 31.
  • Aberlour, 159.
  • —— Orphanage, 167.
  • Accident to my father, 124.
  • Adam’s Peak in Ceylon, 212.
  • Affectation, 33 and note.
  • Agnostic, 351, note.
  • Airthrie Castle, 151.
  • Alcohol, a dangerous poison—Evidence of Sir Andrew Clark, Sir William Gull, Dr. Norman Kerr, Dr. Murchison, Dr. Alfred Carpenter, etc., 462, 463.
  • Alexandria, 197.
  • Allahabad, 202.
  • Alma, The Battle of, 132.
  • Alnwick Castle, 107, 141;
    • school for wood-carving, 142;
    • electric light even in dungeon, 146.
  • —— an Italian wedding, 143;
    • coming of age, 143.
  • Altyre, 1, 6, 53.
  • —— Gardens, 35.
  • Anaradhapura, 211.
  • Anglesea, Marquis of, 16.
  • Anstruther in Fife, 229.
  • Ant-hills, 46.
  • Any Soul to any Body, 377.
  • Applecross in Ross-shire, 206.
  • Apprentice, quaint agreement, 80.
  • Archbishop of Athens, 86.
  • Archery, Japan, 339.
  • Ard Patrick, Campbells of, 24.
  • Argyll, Duke of, 144, 214.
  • Arndilly, 159.
  • Ashburton, Lady, 108.
  • “As it is done in Heaven,” 453.
  • “At Last,” 378.
  • Atlantic Cable, 153.
  • Auchintoul, 207.
  • Australia, 218.
  • Badenoch, Lords of, 1.
  • Badgers, “Inch-Brock,” 407.
  • Barnscleugh, 157.
  • Bass Rock, 123.
  • Bathing in Japan, 286, 310, 330, 382.
  • Batticaloa, Ceylon, 174.
  • Belhaven, Baron, 21, 157.
  • Ben Agan, 159.
  • Benares on the Ganges, 201.
  • Ben Rinnes, 159.
  • Birdsall House, 205, 206 note.
  • Birnie near Elgin, Culdee Church, 427.
  • Bishops of Argyll and the Isles, Ewing, 33, 45, 156.
  • —— Brechin, Forbes, 31;
  • —— London, Blomfield, 109.
  • —— Moray and Ross, Eden, 158, 188, 191.
  • —— Samoa, Elloi, 227.
  • Blind Chang of Manchuria, 362–364.
  • Bonnie Dundee at Duffus, 404.
  • Bothwell, Countess of, 85.
  • Boy nurses in Japan, 300.
  • Braille’s symbols adapted to Chinese, 355.
  • Brander, Mrs., 228.
  • Brechin, Forbes, Bishop of, 31.
  • Breechloaders, 117.
  • Bridge of Allan, 138.
  • Bridges, the lack of, 441.
  • Brief lives, 51.
  • Buddha’s tooth, 213.
  • Buddhist Pantheon, 275.
  • —— sects in Japan, 292.
  • Burghead, 69, 111, 402.
  • —— Burning the Clavie, 69.
  • Burning of New Testaments in Fiji, 224.
  • Cadman, The Rev. William, 109.
  • Cadzow Park, 157.
  • Calcutta, 198.
  • California, 230.
  • Callum’s Hill, Crieff, Legend of, 376.
  • Campbell, Lady Charlotte, 15, 21;
    • her daughters, 15;
    • second marriage to Rev. Edward Bury, 19.
  • —— Lady Emma, 184.
  • Carbonised animal medicine, 297.
  • Castle Grant, 151.
  • Ceylon, first glimpse, 198.
  • —— two years in, 207.
  • Changes, 119.
  • Charleville, Countess of, 15.
  • “Chérie,” 43, 48, 103, 105.
  • Cherry blossom festival, 280.
  • Chillingham Castle, 107, 154.
  • —— cattle, 157.
  • Chrysanthemum shows, 283–286.
  • Circulating libraries in Japan, 253–263.
  • Clan Comyn or Cumming, 1.
  • —— Grant, last rising of, 161.
  • Claverhouse, 404.
  • Coaching days, 108, 440.
  • College House, Crieff, 371–375.
  • Compiègne, Life at, 154.
  • Comrie, village of, 192.
  • Comyn, The Red, 2.
  • Conditional Immortality, 443–452.
  • Consumption, 155, 156.
  • Conway, Anne Seymour (the Hon. Mrs. John Damer), 102, 422.
  • Cornish estates, 26.
  • Cornwall, 209.
  • Coronach, The Chieftain’s, 189.
  • Cothall, 6.
  • Covesea cliffs, 56, 57 note.
  • Craig-Ellachie, 159.
  • Cremation, 244–252.
  • Cresswell Hall, 102;
  • Cresswell, Captain William, 125, 132.
  • Crieff, 192, 370.
  • Crimean War, 125.
  • Cruelty of telling irreverent, or merely funny stories about sacred verses, 462 note.
  • Cryptomerias, 289, 313.
  • Crystal Palace of 1851, 115.
  • —— at Sydenham, opening ceremony, 127.
  • Culbyn Sandhills, 55, 387, 395, 398.
  • Cullen House, 164.
  • Cumming the Fair, Seventh Bishop of Iona, 13.
  • Cumming, varied spelling, 2.
  • Cumming-Bruce, 12.
  • —— Elma, Countess of Elgin, 12.
  • —— The Rev. Charles, 13.
  • “Daily dose of Alcohol, the cause of disease,” 463.
  • Dallas, 6, 70.
  • Darsie, Mrs., 229.
  • Death of my mother, 43;
    • of my father, 136;
    • of Captain Cresswell, 132;
    • of Oswin Cresswell, 147;
    • of my sister Seymour Cresswell, 156;
    • of The Master of Grant, 164;
    • of Earl of Seafield, 166;
    • of my sister Alice, 171;
    • of my brother John, 174;
    • of Roualeyn, 175–181;
    • of Penrose, 183–190;
    • of my sister Ida, 180;
    • of my sister Eleanora and George Grant, 193;
    • of my half-brother Frederick, 194 note;
    • of the Rev. Fred. and Mrs. Langham, 222–224.
  • Devie and Dorbach rivers, 53.
  • Doll festival in Japan, 301.
  • Dovecots, 73, 97, 98.
  • Drainie, 87.
  • —— Dr. Rose, minister of, reminiscence, 70;
    • his last service in St. Giles’, 434.
  • Druggists’ shops of old Japan and old England, 296–299.
  • Duffus Castle, 404, 408.
  • Dunbar of Northfield and Duffus, 28–30.
  • Dungeons at Gordonstoun, 74, 94–96.
  • Dunphail, 8;
    • old castle of, 9, 10.
  • Dunrobin, 87, 94.
  • Duthil, 165.
  • Dyer, Henry, 232.
  • Dysart, Countess of, 151.
  • Earthquakes in Japan, 319–326.
  • Easter Elchies, 159;
  • Easy reading for illiterate Chinese, 359.
  • Ecclesiastical Censures, 83, 84.
  • Eddystone Rock, 207.
  • Elgin, formerly a picturesque old town, 435;
    • very numerous malt-kilns, 436;
    • street lamps, 437;
    • condition of streets, 438;
    • water-supply, 439;
    • coals first imported, 439.
  • —— Church of St. Giles, 431;
    • seats apportioned, 432;
    • lighting, 433;
    • bells, 435.
  • —— Cathedral built, 427;
    • burnt, 428;
    • rebuilt but lead stripped by order of Privy Council, 428.
  • Election, bitterly contested, 163.
  • Empress Eugenie and Louis Napoleon, 154.
  • —— Haruku, 240, 335.
  • “Enemy of the Human Race,” by Sir Andrew Clark, 463.
  • Fautong, wadded quilt, 315.
  • Feudal sports revived, 337.
  • Figure 9 minus a tail!, 383.
  • Fiji, “At home in,” 216.
  • —— in 1903, 225.
  • Findhorn Bay, 395, 401.
  • —— river, 53.
  • First Book, 204.
  • “Fish,” 37, 39.
  • —— Festival in Japan, 300.
  • Five o’clock tea an innovation, 115.
  • Flower festivals in Japan, 276–286.
  • Flowers, favourite, 136, 156.
  • —— Camelia trees in Japan, 243.
  • —— useful selection and packing, 113.
  • —— wild, 88, 105, 113, 312.
  • Folklore anent foxes, 290.
  • Footprint held sacred, 212.
  • Forres and Elgin, 382.
  • Fort Augustus, 175.
  • Fortune-telling, 15.
  • Forty-seven Rônins, 277.
  • Fox-god, his shrines, 288.
  • —— demoniacal possession by, 290.
  • Fujiyama, 109;
    • ascent of, 307–330;
    • view from summit, 318.
  • Funeral, a double, 164.
  • —— pall, 76.
  • Gallows Hill, 7, 87.
  • Garratt, the Rev. Mr., 109.
  • Geologists at Altyre, 38.
  • George Gordon, prentice to Robt. Blaikwood, 80.
  • Gibraltar, 203.
  • Gipsies, 63, 64.
  • Glass-works, 82, 153.
  • Glenelg, Lord, 32, 160.
  • Glenlee, Lord, 30.
  • Goodenough, Commodore, 218.
  • “Goodwill and Blessing,” 400.
  • Gordon-Cumming, Major Frederick, Note, 194.
  • —— John, William, and Frank, 42.
  • —— Henry, 32, 33, 196.
  • —— Jane, Lady, 107, 196.
  • —— double surname, Gordon of Gordonstoun, Cumming of Altyre, 26, Note.
  • —— clan tartans, badges, and mottoes, 14.
  • Gordonstoun, 27, 56, 72.
  • —— charter-room, 77.
  • —— lairds of, 85–100.
  • —— library, 99, note.
  • —— great picture by Gavin Hamilton, 75.
  • —— Sir William Gordon’s will, 100.
  • Gordon Castle, ancient name, 72, 102.
  • Grant, Field-Marshal Sir Patrick, 161.
  • —— General Ulysses, 333, 334, 342–346.
  • Grant, George, 125, 140.
  • —— of Glen Morriston, 189.
  • —— Lodge, 162, 159 note.
  • Grant of Grant, Lady Ann and Lady Penuel rouse the clan, 160.
  • —— —— Earls of Findlater and Seafield, 27, 28.
  • Grantown on Spey, 159.
  • Granville, Earl, 16, 18.
  • Great Eastern, s.s., 152.
  • Gregory, Mrs., 211.
  • Grey, Sir George, New Zealand, 221.
  • Gull’s Castle, 65.
  • Gunning, the three beauties, 20.
  • Hair, offerings of, 291, 467;
    • court hairdressing in Japan, 241.
  • Hakoni Lake, 311.
  • Hamilton Gordon, the Hon. Lady, 216.
  • Handsome Hays, 124.
  • Hanlin Library burnt, 365.
  • Hara kiri, 178.
  • Hardwar on the Ganges, 201.
  • Harehope, 106, 140, 154.
  • Harford Battersby of Keswick, 130.
  • Havelock, Sir Arthur, 222.
  • Hawaiian Islands, 347.
  • Hell’s Hole, 63;
    • seven hells of Buddhism, 331.
  • Helston in Cornwall, 25.
  • Hill Murray, the Rev. William, 353;
  • Himalayas, 200.
  • Hindoo, s.s., 207;
    • foundering of, 208.
  • Historic Festival, Japan, 336.
  • Hong Kong, 243.
  • Hooker, Sir Joseph, 350.
  • Hopeman, 57.
  • —— “Holy Well” of Brae-mou or Burn-mouth, 70, 416.
  • Hospitable days, 130.
  • Hunt, Alfred, R.A., 195.
  • Idols, how punished and rewarded, 303–306.
  • —— their intestines, 304.
  • Images under repair, 302.
  • Immortality, by Nature, not taught in the Bible, Archbishop Whately, Martin Luther, Bishop Gore, W. E. Gladstone, 449, 450.
  • Impenitence, 110.
  • Imperial College of Engineering, 232.
  • India, Life in, 198.
  • Indian Mutiny, 155.
  • Inkerman, Battle of, 134.
  • Intercessory Prayer, 454.
  • Inventor of the numeral-type for China, 353–370.
  • Inveraray, 214.
  • Inverness Gathering, 131–151;
    • cathedral, 158.
  • Islay, Campbell of, 16, 18.
  • Ivy-leaves, their motto, 14.
  • Japan and China, 231–346;
    • cremation and earth-burial, 244–252.
  • Jessica’s First Prayer, 186 note.
  • Jin-riki-ya, 236.
  • Jupp, the Rev. Charles, 168.
  • Kandy in Ceylon, 211.
  • Kinsfolk, numerous, 5.
  • Kite-flying in Japan, 302.
  • Kobu-dai-Gakko, 232.
  • Kwan-non, Goddess of Mercy, 275–6, 296.
  • Lady’s Cruise on a French Man-of-War, 227.
  • Langford Brooke of the Mere, 16.
  • Langham, The Rev. Fred., 219, 222.
  • Larks in Moray, fewer, 393.
  • Le Hunte, Sir George Ruthven, 221.
  • Lennox, Lady Arthur, 16.
  • —— Lady Walter Gordon, 193.
  • Le Seignelay, 227.
  • Letters, old, 3, 40–43.
  • “Letters of horning,” 83, 84.
  • Liddill, The Honble. Misses, 154.
  • Liddon, Canon, 205.
  • Lindisfarne, 140.
  • —— Archdeacon of, 141–148.
  • Longfellow, 348.
  • Lord Lovat’s cold bath, 79.
  • —— Scouts, 78.
  • “Lords of Regality,” 405.
  • Lotus blossom festival, 282.
  • —— emblem of Buddha, 253.
  • Lucifer matches, a recent blessing, 433.
  • Lyndhurst in 1854, 129.
  • Macdowal Grant of Arndilly, 167.
  • M‘Gregor, Sir William, 221.
  • Macleod, Dr. Norman, 107.
  • Madame de Staël, 103.
  • Magazine Articles, 477–480.
  • Malta, 197, 202.
  • Manchuria, first copy of the Bible, 361.
  • —— 25,000 staunch Christians, 362.
  • Mandarin dialects in China, 361.
  • Maple, scarlet foliage, 286.
  • Mar and Kellie, Earl of, 31.
  • Marianne North, Miss, 350.
  • Martyrs, the noble army of, 366.
  • Medicines, quaint, 96, 290 note, 310, 468–477.
  • Medwyn, Lord (Forbes of), 30.
  • Menzies of Menzies, Sir Robert, 28, 192.
  • Michael Kirk, 44 note, 92, 137, 182, 188.
  • Middleton, Lord, 205.
  • —— Lady, 455.
  • Mikado, the, 234, 239, 335.
  • Minton, the Rev. Samuel, 205 note.
  • Mission to the Blind in China, 352.
  • Montana, s.s., 209.
  • Monto, or Shin-shiû, reformed Buddhism, 292–295.
  • Montebello, Duc de, 22.
  • Monument over 5000 pairs of Korean ears, 276.
  • Moray Floods, 49, 421.
  • —— fertility, 385.
  • —— province of, 381.
  • Morrison, Lady Mary, 19.
  • Moy, The Moy Aunts, 31.
  • —— my first journey, 34.
  • Murray, The Rev. Will. Hill, 353;
    • inventions, 355–359;
    • blindness, 368.
  • Navvies on Speyside, 167.
  • Noel Paton (Sir), 188.
  • “Nô,” or Mythological Plays, 271.
  • North, Miss Marianne, 350.
  • Northern Meeting, 131, 151.
  • Northumberland, 102, 105, 140.
  • —— Dukes of, 141, 144.
  • ‘Not so bad as that,’ 437.
  • Notes of a Naturalist, 175 (Roualeyn).
  • Numeral-type for China, 353.
  • Nurses, my, 48.
  • Oak forests (Burghead), 415.
  • Ochtertyre, “God’s-acre,” 193, 376.
  • Ogilvie, Grant of Grant, 193.
  • Old Nan, 48.
  • Old Red Sandstone fossils, 38–39.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, 348.
  • Opera, crude criticism of, 121.
  • Ossulston, Lady Olivia, 154.
  • Otomitonga Pass, Japan, 311.
  • Oysters and Lobsters, no more, 410.
  • Parentage, 5.
  • Parkes, Sir Harry, 333–334.
  • Penrose of Penrose, Grace Pearce, 25.
  • —— 209.
  • “Pen’s sylvania,” 158.
  • Perthshire, kind neighbours, 192, 193.
  • Percy, Earl, 144.
  • Pibroch, the last, 187.
  • Pigeons, superstitions concerning, 97.
  • “Pigs” of jam, school stores, 115.
  • Pilgrims in Japan, 309.
  • Pillows in Japan, etc., 292.
  • Pit and gallows, 87.
  • Pitgaveny, 414, 419.
  • Pittyvaich, 33, 196.
  • Planting Forests, 52.
  • Plymouth, 207.
  • Poetic heroes in Japan, 276.
  • Pollanarua, 211.
  • Portfolios, a wearisome possession, 203, 213, 351.
  • —— of China, 352.
  • Portland, Dukes of, 92.
  • Posting, 40, 103.
  • Prayer, a remarkable answer to, 365.
  • —— Wheels, 253–266.
  • Primitive Plays, 272.
  • Prisons, as reformatories in Japan, 239.
  • Punishment of obdurate idols, 303.
  • Quirang, 194.
  • Rabbits in Morayshire, 388;
    • Protection Act, 393.
  • Raigmore, Mackintosh of, 28, 131.
  • Railway, first line completed in the north, 408 note.
  • —— Highland, 441.
  • Randolph’s Leap, 10.
  • Relugas, 10, 130.
  • Rheumatic Fever, 149.
  • Rheumatism, cure for, 149 note.
  • Rivers of Morayshire, 10.
  • Robinson (Clifford), 33.
  • Rosaries, 267–269, 309, 464–467.
  • Rose-isle, 6.
  • Roualeyn, 5, 36, 37, 42, 116–119, 152;
    • his name, 41.
  • Round Square, 73.
  • Royal Albert, launch of, 126.
  • Russell, Lord William, 16.
  • —— Sir George, 16.
  • —— Mrs. William, 124.
  • Ruthven, Mary Lady, 22.
  • Ruyter, 116, 119.
  • Sacred Book Wheels, 253–266.
  • Salisbury system of diet, 149 note.
  • Salt superstitions, 252.
  • Samuel Pepys, 89.
  • Samurai of Japan, 236, 238.
  • Sandhills, 55, 387, 395.
  • Sandwich Isles, 347.
  • “Says Tweed to Till,” 107.
  • School-days, 108.
  • Sculpture Cave, 59, 68.
  • Seafield, Earls of, 151 note, 159.
  • Seals, 395.
  • Sebastopol, 133.
  • Sequoia Gigantea, 230.
  • Sergison of Cuckfield Park, 191, 195.
  • Seventy-eighth Highlanders’ Welcome Home, 169.
  • Shawfield, Campbell of, 16, 18.
  • Shinto Worship, 270, 313.
  • Siege of the Legations, 367.
  • Simla, 200.
  • Sinclair, Jamie, Prince Worenzow’s Crimean gardener, 36.
  • Singapore, 217.
  • Sir Robert’s Stable, 66, 93.
  • Skipness, Campbells of, 24, 157.
  • Skye, Isle of, 194.
  • Slaginnan, Legend of, 9.
  • Sligachan in Skye, 194.
  • Smugglers, 67.
  • Social drinking customs, 461.
  • “Spate” on the Findhorn, 39.
  • Spey river, 159, 384.
  • Spiritualism, at Boston, 349.
  • Sporting trophies dispersed, 174 note.
  • Sportsman’s paradise, 407.
  • Sportsmen, true, 42, 117, 173.
  • Spurgeon, 152.
  • Spynie, Loch of, 87, 384, 403.
  • —— Lord, title created, 424;
  • —— Palace of, 384, 406, 413, 427.
  • Squirrel foes, 389–392.
  • Stanmore, Lord, 216.
  • Star-grass, 413.
  • Starlings in Moray, 393.
  • —— in Banff, 393.
  • Straw shoes, 329.
  • Stuart, Randolph, 9.
  • —— Alexander, Wolf of Badenoch, 9, 379.
  • St. Columba, Legend of, 376.
  • St. Margaret’s College, Crieff, now College House, 373.
  • St. Quintin, Geoffrey, 193.
  • Sutherland, Earls of, 85, 87.
  • —— Duchess of, 124.
  • Sutledge river, 201.
  • Sutors of Cromarty, 60.
  • Swans, wild, 384, 395, 407, 412.
  • Sydney, 218.
  • Tankerville, Earl, 157.
  • Tarbat, Viscount, 81.
  • Teetotalers in Judea, Commended, 464.
  • “The Lion Hunter,” 42, 116.
  • The Te Deum, 366.
  • Theatres in Japan, 270–274.
  • —— at Trincomalee, 272.
  • Titaua, 228.
  • Tonga, Taheiti, and Samoa, 227, 230.
  • Total abstinence made difficult, 461.
  • —— commended by wise physicians, 462, 463.
  • —— commended in the Bible, 464.
  • Travel, wearisome, 13, 46, 86, 103, 170.
  • Trespass, 95.
  • Triangular Shadow of Adam’s Peak, 212.
  • —— of Fujiyama, 317.
  • Tulli Duvie (Relugas), 10 note.
  • Ugadale, Macneal of, 24.
  • Uxbridge, Countess of, 16, 102.
  • Vanished waters, 383, 403.
  • Varna Bay, 133.
  • Volcanic activity in Japan, 319–326.
  • Von Hügel, Baron Anatole, 227.
  • Voyages, my first, 111, 123.
  • War-cry of the Grants, 159.
  • Warkworth, Lord, coming of age, 144.
  • Wasp’s nests, 46.
  • Weddings, my sisters: Seymour, 192;
    • Eleanora, 141;
    • Ida, 134;
    • Emilia, 191;
    • my brother William, 193.
  • Wemyss, Earl of, 21.
  • Wheels, sacred symbols, 260.
  • —— for images, 265.
  • White terraces, New Zealand, 221.
  • —— wild cattle, 157.
  • Wig, cost of a, 386 note.
  • “Wild men and wild beasts,” 155.
  • Willoughby, 205 note.
  • —— The Hon. Mrs., 454.
  • Winchester College, founder’s kin, 14.
  • Window-tax, 73, 99.
  • Winthrop, Mrs., 348.
  • Winton Castle, 22.
  • Wishaw, 157.
  • Wistaria blossom, 281.
  • Witch-burning, 91.
  • Wizard, Sir Robert, 89–92.
  • Woodhorne Church, 148, 156, 171.
  • Wood-pigeons in Moray, 392.
  • Wolf of Badenoch, Alexander Stuart, 9, 379.
  • Wollaton Hall, 206 note.
  • Worcester, climb the beacon, 150.
  • Worship by machinery, 253–269, and 464–467.
  • Yeddo, 235.
  • Zurick, marriage at, 15.