Turning now to Mr. Sedgwick's translation, he gives _Ancients_ as the English equivalent for _Alférez_, which is probably some curious misprint; for the ordinary meaning of the word is _ensign_. Again, _Sierra_ does not mean a "peak," but a mountain ridge or range. _Pelotes_ is given as _goat-skin_: it should be goat's _hair_. "_Y pues el salvaje sentia tanto desmamparar su castillo_" is translated: "And since the savage had _resolved_ to abandon his castle." This should be: "Besides [or since] the savage _regretted so much_ to abandon his castle." Here it may be remarked that Cuellar always calls the natives of Ireland savages, which seems very ungrateful on his part, as many of them showed him great kindness. It would have been pleasanter for a translator at the present day to have softened the harsher expression by substituting _native_ for it, as Professor O'Reilly has done; but it appears to me that this does not convey the correct meaning of what Cuellar had in view when he used the word _salvaje_. Referring to MacClancy's Castle, Cuellar says: "_Por lo qual no se puede ganar este castillo por agua, ni por la banda de tierra que esta mas cerca de el._" Mr. Sedgwick translates it thus: "For this reason the castle is safe from attack, and is inaccessible both by water and by the strip of _land that runs up to it_." This would look as if the castle stood upon a promontory of the mainland, instead of being built in the lake, as Cuellar, at the beginning of the same paragraph, tells us it was. I think the true meaning of the passage is this: "For which reason the castle could not be taken by water nor by the shore of the land that is nearest to it." To conclude: there appears to be an important error in Mr. Sedgwick's translation, beginning with the title, and repeated in the first and last sentences of this book, besides occurring several times throughout its pages. I refer to the statement that Cuellar's letter was written to King Philip II., and to the constant use of the expression "Your Majesty" to the person he was addressing. I cannot find the slightest evidence in support of this assumption: on the contrary, everything in the letter would seem to contradict it. It is written in a familiar, chatty style, as to a person with whom the writer was on fairly familiar terms, and was certainly not such as a captain in the Spanish navy would address to his Sovereign. The error must, I think, have arisen from some misconception as to the meaning of the abbreviations made use of in Spanish epistolary correspondence.