Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Cairn instead of Fightin'

Scotland

– They seem never to have been a warlike race; passing through their country, we once observed a large stone cairn, and our guide favoured us with the following account of it: - 
    "Once upon a time, our forefathers were going to fight another tribe, and here they halted and sat down. After a long consultation, they came to the unanimous conclusion that, instead of proceeding to fight and kill their neighbours, and perhaps be killed themselves, it would be more like men to raise this heap of stones, as their protest against the wrong the other tribe had done them, which, having accomplished, they returned quietly home."
David Livingstone writing on men of peace.
Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi.

The 14 foot tall cairn DSWAC built in Canada at Royal Ashburn