because in general it was not his manner to use such compliments.' It was afterwards remembered that his farewell to Chichester also was 'more sad and passionate than was usual with him.' On Monday he passed through Armagh to a house of his own near Dungannon, and there rested two nights. On Wednesday he crossed the Strabane mountains, and appears to have remained in the open during the night. During this day's journey, says Davies, 'it is reported that the Countess, his wife, being exceedingly weary, slipped down from her horse, and, weeping, said she could go no further; whereupon the Earl drew his sword, and swore a great oath that he would kill her on the place if she would not pass on with him, and put on a more cheerful countenance withal.' On Thursday morning they reached Burndennet, near Lifford. The Governor asked him and his son to dinner, but he perhaps feared detention, and pushed on during the afternoon and night to Rathmullen, where the French ship was lying. Tyrconnel had already arrived, and they appear to have sailed the next morning. Chichester afterwards discovered that O'Cahan wished to go too, but was unable to join the others in time.[34] [Sidenote: Departure of Tyrone, Tyrconnel, and Maguire.] Ninety-nine persons sailed in the vessel which carried Tyrone, Tyrconnel, and Maguire. Among the O'Neills were Lady Tyrone, her three sons Hugh, John, and Brian, and Art Oge, the son of Tyrone's brother Cormac. Among the O'Donnells were Tyrconnel's brother Caffar, with his wife Rose O'Dogherty, and his sister Nuala, who had left her husband Neill Garv. What, the Irish annalists ask, might not the young in this distinguished company have achieved if they had been allowed to grow up in Ireland? 'Woe to the heart that meditated, woe to the mind that conceived, woe to the council that decided the project of their setting out on this voyage without knowing whether they should ever return to their native principalities or patrimonies to the end of the world.' [Sidenote: Sir Cormac MacBaron.] [Sidenote: The fugitives reach France,] [Sidenote: but are not allowed to stay there.]