eastward (_Eòin an domhain, siar, ’s iasg an domhain, sear_).” During the night, the younger brother, the one of skins, called out that there was a mound before them (_gu ’n robh tòrr rompa_). His brother who was in the afterpart of the boat said, “Is it a tòrr without grass,” and it has got the name of Torrens to the present day (_’se na tòrrain a theirear riu gus an là ’n diugh_). They reached Mull shore when it was day, and they ran-in the boat at a narrow strait that was like an opening in a dyke (_cachaileith ghàraidh_), and before they got them from the tholepins, the oars were broken. The place is still known as the narrow strait of broken oars (_Caolas-a’-bhristidh-ràmh_). They got on shore, and went home and told where they had been and what had happened to them. The person, now above 70 years of age, from whom the above story was taken down almost word for word by the writer, said that he heard the story when he was a young man, and that the following story (that of the two sisters), was a continuation of it; the incidents of the story occurred during the absence of the two brothers from the place, and were told to them by the natives, in return for the story of their own adventures. The name Torquil, which occurs in this story, and the belief in witchcraft and occult power indicated, suggests that the colony in Mull came originally from Lochlin, or that the story belongs to a later period of history than that that of “The two brothers.” The story is as follows:-- THE TWO SISTERS AND THE CURSE.