Now, as Glenade is among the Leitrim mountains, not on their northern side--along which, in the first instance, I had supposed Cuellar's route to lie--it became necessary for me to re-examine my position and make sure whether the Spanish text required a rigid adherence to my first translation, or might admit of some alternative reading that would account for the apparent discrepancy. The result was, as already explained, that the pages of the dictionary disclosed a perfectly easy and admissible treatment of the passage in question, that solved the difficulty without the necessity of resorting to any postulates, or putting a forced or novel interpretation upon the words. Here, perhaps, I should refer to the fact that two other translators of Cuellar's narrative--Professor O'Reilly in the _Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy_, December, 1893, and Mr. Sedgwick in a small volume recently published by Mr. Elkin Mathews, of Vigo Street, London--give this passage a very different meaning to that which I attach to it, while they agree tolerably closely with each other. Professor O'Reilly omits all mention of the mountains, and translates only the rest of the sentence, as: "_Taking the northerly direction pointed out by the boy_"; while Mr. Sedgwick puts it in this form: "_Striking north for the mountains_ the boy had pointed out." This latter reading gives the preposition (_de_) exactly the opposite signification to that which it usually bears. But, apart from this, there is another and, I think, a fatal objection to the two foregoing translations of the phrase. Both agree that the boy told Cuellar to go _straight on_ to mountains, _pointed out_ by him, as the place behind which O'Rourke lived. If so, these mountains could not have been situated to the north of where he was at the time, as to go from thence in anything like a northerly direction would have brought him at once into the sea, which lay to the north of him, and extended for several miles farther eastwards. That this fact must have been apparent to both Cuellar and his guide as they went along will be recognised by those who are acquainted with the locality, which everywhere looks down upon the ocean. There is another rather important point upon which I differ from the two gentlemen already named, who here again agree closely with each other. It relates to the position of the village in which MacClancy's retainers lived. Cuellar says it was established upon "_tierra firme_," which one translates as _firm_, the other as _solid_, ground. To me the context appears to indicate clearly that the expression was intended to bear its ordinary idiomatic interpretation of _mainland_ in contradistinction to the position of the castle itself, which we are told was built in the lake.