“Disgrace on you MacLean, though it is enough that you are being driven by the son of the skate-eating carl” (“_Miapadh ort, a Mhic ’illeathainn, ’s leoir tha thu gabhail iomain roimh Mhac bodach nan sgat_”), said the Grizzly Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) coming up to them, and then calling to MacNeill, “I am not in a mood to deceive you, there they are behind you” (“_Cha bhi mi ’m brath foille dhuit, sin iad agad air do chùlthaobh_”), and when MacNeill turned round the Grizzly Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) threw off his head with the axe. The MacNeills fled and were beset and killed in the Hollow of bones (_Slochd-nan-cnàmh_) in the lower part of Grisipol Hill (_Iochdar Beinn Ghrisipol_). They then returned to Grisipol, and MacNeill’s widow, Stout John’s (_Iain Garbh’s_) mother, held up her child a suckling (_ciocharan_), that Stout John (_Iain Garbh_) might spare him and acknowledge his own half-brother. He was for sparing it, but the Grizzly Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) told him to put the needle on the ploughshare (_cuir an t-snathad air a’ choltar_). The child was killed. An additional if not a different account is: Stout John (_Iain Garbh_) first of Coll, when a boy, was obliged to fly from Coll to Dowart, and his mother married MacNeill of Barra. When he came of age, and was for making good his claim to his native island, in raising the clan he came to a widow’s house in Dervaig. She said her other sons were away, or they would be at his service, and she had only a big stripling of a grizzly looking lad (_Stiall mòr de ghille riabhach_) if he choose to take him. He took him, and it was well for him he did. It is said that this family of whom the Grizzly Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) was one, and whose services were at MacLean’s command, were Campbells. MacNeill kept a man with a white horse at Arinagour, and if the MacLeans were heard to land in the island, he was to ride off at full speed to Breacacha. If anything was wrong the messenger was to turn his head to the horse’s tail when he came in sight of Breacacha. The Grizzly Lad (_Gille Riabhach_) took across the hill, where there is now a straight road, and intercepted this rider. On hearing from him that MacNeill was at Grisipol, he suddenly leapt behind him on the horse, and killed him with his dirk. He rode back to his own party, and then slowly to Grisipol where the MacNeills were at dinner. MacLean and his men were faint and weary for want of food. They had not tasted anything since they left Mull. They entered a tenant’s house and asked food. The man had nothing for them, once he had enough, but since the MacLeans had left the island, he had come to grief and poverty. He said to Stout John (_Iain Garbh_) his heart warmed to him, he was so like his ancient masters. On learning who they were he gave all the milk he had to them.