Fhad ’s a mhaireadh a slatan ’S bloidhean d’a darach: Tha do bhreacan ùr uallach Air uachdar nan glas thonn ’S fuil do chinn aig an fhaoilinn ’S fuil do thaobh aig an fharspaig Thùg horoinn O. ’S fuil do chinn aig an fhaoilinn ’S fhuil do thaobh aig an fharspaig: Tha do phiuthar gun bhràthair ’S do mhàthair gun mhac dheth Do bhean òg ’s i gun chéile ’S truagh mi fhéin dheth gun dalta. Thùg horoinn O. There is quite a modern instance, perhaps about the beginning of this century, of a native of the islet of Ulva, near Mull, having been driven during a snowstorm to _Heisgeir-nan-Cuiseag_ (High Rock of Windlestraws) and passing the winter there alone till he was taken off early in the following summer. He, too, must have subsisted on whelks and what he could get along the shore. He was going home from Tiree. Anxious to be at home at the New-year O.S., he, with a companion, left Tiree, and before going far a snowstorm came on, and the wind increased in violence till they were driven they did not know where. The companion got benumbed and died in the boat. It could only be said by the survivor that they passed very high rocks on some island. The boat was cast ashore on Heisker, and the poor man left in it had to pass the winter as best he could, without food or shelter. The islet is too distant from Canna for him to have been observed by any signal he could make. NOTES: [6] The islet near North Uist, on which the Mona Light house is built, is called the High Rock of the Monks, _Heisgeir nam Manach_. STEEPING THE WITHIES.