_Vit. Columbæ, autore Cummenio, apud_ Pinkerton, _Vitæ Sanctorum_, cc. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. Adamnan, B. iii. c. 24. Cummene’s account is enlarged by Adamnan, and he has added the visit to the barn and the incident of the white horse; but, as Cummene wrote so much earlier, it has been thought desirable to discriminate between the two accounts. Footnote 282: Adamnan’s word is ‘Ratabusta,’ an unknown word either in classical or mediæval Latin; and it appears to have puzzled the transcribers, as other MSS. read ‘Rata busta’ ‘Intra busta,’ ‘In rata tabeta.’ The Bollandists propose ‘Catabusta.’ Bustum is used for a sepulchre; and Ducange has Busticeta, which he defines ‘sepulchra antiqua,’ ‘sepulchra in agro.’ Dr. Reeves thinks it is used here for a coffin. Footnote 283: This frequently happens when the wind blows strongly from the south-west. Footnote 284: St. Columba’s day was the 9th of June, and the year on which he died is determined by the consideration of whether he must be held to have died on Saturday evening or on Sunday morning. If on Sunday, then the 9th of June fell on a Sunday in the year 597. If on Saturday, then the 9th of June fell on a Saturday in 596. The former is most consistent with Adamnan’s narrative, who places his death after midnight, and states the duration of his life in Iona at 34 years, which, added to 563, gives us the year 597. Bede’s statement, though made on different _data_, brings us to the same year. He brings him over in 565, but gives 32 years as the duration of his life after, which also brings us to 597. Tighernac seems to have adopted the other view, for he says that he died on the eve of Whitsunday, ‘in nocte Dominica Pentecosten,’ and Whitsunday fell on the 10th of June 596; but this is inconsistent with his other statement, that he came over to Britain in 563, and died in the thirty-fifth year of his pilgrimage, which brings us to 597. Footnote 285: Montalembert’s _Monks of the West_, vol. iii. p. 269. Montalembert accepts the whole of O’Donnel’s biography of St. Columba as true. Footnote 286: Adamnan, Pref. 2. His expression ‘insulanus miles’ has been entirely misunderstood by Montalembert. Footnote 287: _Amra Choluimchille_, by O’Beirne Crowe, pp. 27, 39, 49, 51, 53, 65. Footnote 288: _Ib._, p. 39. Footnote 289: Adamnan, B. i. c. 29. Footnote 290: _Amra Choluimchille_, pp. 43, 45. Footnote 291: Adamnan, B. ii. c. 14. Footnote 292: Bede, _Η. E._, B. iii. c. 3. Footnote 293: Bede seems to refer to this when he says, ‘in quibus omnibus idem monasterium insulanum, _in quo ipse requiescit corpore_, principatum teneret.’—B. iii. c. 4. Footnote 294: