[Footnote 41: For example, the late Rev. J.G. Campbell, Tiree, says of "the Great Tuairisgeul" that he was "a giant of the kind called _Samhanaich_--that is, one who lived in a cave by the sea-shore, the strongest and coarsest of any" (_Scottish Celtic Review_, p. 62). That this term was one of contempt, given by Gaelic-speaking people to those "giants" (and apparently based upon their malodorous characteristics), will be seen from Mr. Campbell's further observation (_op. cit._ pp. 140-141):--"It is a common expression to say of any strong offensive smell, _mharbhadh e na Samhanaich_, it would kill the giants who dwell in caves by the sea. _Samk_ is a strong oppressive smell." McAlpine defines _Samk_ as a "bad smell arising from a sick person, or a dirty hot place"; and he further gives the definition "a savage" (quoting Mackenzie). The word _Samhanach_ itself is defined by McAlpine as "a savage," and he cites the Islay saying:--"_chuireadh tu cagal air na samhanaich_," "you would frighten the very savages." From these definitions it will be seen that a word translated "giant" by one is rendered "savage" by another (though neither of these terms expresses the literal meaning). Mr. J.G. Campbell also practically regards it as signifying "cave-dweller," or perhaps a certain special caste of cave-dwellers. With this may be compared McAlpine's "_uamh_, _n.f._, a cave, den; _n.m._, a chief of savages, terrible fellow ... '_cha'n'eil ann ach uamh dhuine_,' 'he is only a savage of a fellow.'" Islay has also another word to denote a Hebridean savage. This is _ciuthach_, "pr. _kewach_, described in the Long Island as naked wild men living in caves" (J.F. Campbell, Tales, iii. 55, _n._). One of these "kewachs" figures in the story of Diarmaid and Grainne, and one version says that he "came in from the western ocean in a coracle with two oars (_curachan_)" (_The Fians_, p. 54). (His name assumes various shapes--_e.g._, Ciofach Mac a Ghoill, Ciuthach Mac an Doill, Ceudach Mac Righ nan Collach.) These three terms--_samhanach, uamh dhuine_, and _ciuthach_--all seem to indicate one and the same race of people. And these are probably the people referred to by Pennant when he says, speaking of the civilised races of the Hebrides in the beginning of the seventeenth century:--"Each chieftain had his armour-bearer, who preceded his master in time of war, and, by my author's (Timothy Pont's MS., Advocates' Library, Edinburgh) account in time of peace; for they went armed even to church, in the manner the North Americans do at present [1772] in the frontier settlement, and for the same reason, the dread of savages." (Pinkerton's _Voyages_, vol. iii. p. 322.)]