Breacacha for news. If all was well, the messenger was to return riding slowly with his face to the horse’s tail; if any one returned with him, a friend was to walk on the right of the horse, a stranger (_fògarach_) on the left; and she said that he had just left on his way home. Stout John (_Iain Garbh_) and his companions left the Hidden Anchorage (_Acarsaid Fhalaich_) and went to the top of the place called Desert (_Fàsach_). They there saw the rider of the white horse at Arileòid. Stout John (_Iain Garbh_) promised reward to any one who would intercept him, before he reached Grisipol. The Grizzled Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) said he would do so, if he got Dervaig, his native place, rent free. MacLean promised this, but the lad said, “Words may be great till it comes to solemn oaths” (_Is mór briathran gun lughadh_), made him swear to the deed. The Grizzled Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) set off, and above the Broad Knoll (_Cnoc Leathan_) saw the horseman at the township of Hough. When at the Stone of Moaning (_Clach Ochanaich_), on the top of Ben Hough, he saw him past Clabbach. He made for the road, near the present Free Church Manse, and lay down, and pretending to be a beggar began to hunt through his clothes. Where the Little Cairn of the King’s Son (_Carnan mhic an Righ_) stands, the horseman came up, was pulled off his horse and killed. The lad then waited till his companions came up, and proceeded to Grisipol with two on each side. It was dinner time, and his servant the Black Lad (_Gille Dubh_) brought word to MacNeill of the party coming. His wife, looking out of an opening, said one of the party coming looked like her son. MacNeill exclaimed, “War time is not a time for sleep” (“_Cha-n àm cadal an cogadh_”), and went out to give battle. In the fight the Grizzled Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) was hard pressed by the Black Lad, (_Gille Dubh_), and sideways jumped the stream that runs past Grisipol House at the place still known as the Grizzly Lad’s leap (_Leum a’ Ghille Riabhaich_) to avoid the blow of the battle-axe. The axe stuck in the ground, and before it was recovered, the Grizzly Lad (_Gille Riabhach_), jumping back, threw off the Black Lad’s (_Gille Dubh_) head. Stout John (_Iain Garbh_) was hard pressed by MacNeill himself, and both were out in the sea at the foot of the stream.