The prehistoric dog or jackal symbolised not tenacity or courage, but the maker of tracks, for the well-authenticated reason that dogs were considered the best guides to practicable courses in the wilderness. Bull-headed men and dog-headed men are represented constantly in Cretan Art, and these in all likelihood symbolised the primeval bull-dogs who trekked into so many of the wild and trackless places of the world. The Welsh have a saying, "Tra Mor, Tra Brython," which means, "as long as there is sea so long will there be Britons". Centuries ago, Diodorus of Sicily mentioned the Kelts as "having an immemorial taste for foreign expeditions and adventurous wars, and he goes on to describe them as 'irritable, prompt to fight, in other respects simple and guileless,' thus, according with Strabo, who sums up the Celtic temperament as being simple and spontaneous, willingly taking in hand the cause of the oppressed".[139] Diodorus also mentions the Kelts as clothed sometimes "in tissues of variegated colours," which calls to mind the tartans of the Alban McAlpines, Ians, Jocks, Sanders, Hendries, and others of that ilk. The dictionaries define the name Andrew as meaning _a man_, whence _androgynous_ and _anthropology_; in Cornish _antrou_ meant _lord_ or _master_, and these early McAndrews were doubtless masterly, tyrannical, dour, derring-doers, inconceivably daring in der-doing. To _try_ means make an effort, and we speak proverbially of "working like a Trojan". The corollary is that tired feeling which must have sorely tried the tyros or young recruits. After daring and trying and tiring, these dour men eventually turned _adre_, which is Cornish for _homeward_. Whether their hearts were turned Troy-ward in the _Ægean_ or to some small unsung British _tre_ or Troynovant, who can tell? "I am now in Jerusalem where Christ was born," wrote a modern argonaut to his mother, but, he added, "I wish I were in Wigan where I was born." FOOTNOTES: [86] Taylor, Rev. T., _The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall_, p. 27. [87] Morris-Jones, Sir J., _Y. Cymmrodor_, xxvii., p. 240. [88] Margoliouth, M., _The Jews in Great Britain_, p. 33. [89] As bearing upon this statement I reprint in the Appendix to the present volume a very remarkable extract from _Britain and the Gael_ (Wm. Beal), 1860. [90] Wilkes, Anna, _Ireland: Ur of the Chaldees_, p. 6. [91] Introduction to Malory's _Morte d'Arthur_ (Everyman's Library). [92] Plutarch, _De Defectu Oraculorum_, xvii. [93] Eckenstein, L., _Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes_, p. 70. [94] Clodd, E., _Tom Tit Tot_, p. 131. [95] Mackenzie, D. A., _Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe_, p. 326. [96] _Cf._ Poste, B., _Britannic Researches_, p. 220. [97] _Y Cymmrodor_, xxviii. [98] Triad 4.