Some family document went amissing, and its loss was likely to be of serious consequence to young Donald Gorm. At the same time the figures of Donald Gorm Mor and two companions were repeatedly seen on the road leading to Duntulm Castle. Efforts were made to accost them, but the three figures passed those who met them in some mysterious manner without being noticed, and without giving any opportunity of being accosted. They were then seen to enter the castle. An old man of the neighbourhood advised that seven staves of pine (_gathannan caol giuthais_), according to others seven spindles of oak (_seachd dealgun daraich_), with fire at their points, should be taken, and entry be made into the room in which the ghosts each day took up their quarters. This was done, and the phantoms, Donald Gorm Mor and his two companions, were found drinking. To give confidence to the intruders, that they might hear his tale, Donald said: “I was in Edinburgh last night, I am in my own mansion to-night, And worth a mote in the sunbeam I have not in me of strength.”[47] He then told where the lost document was to be found, and disappeared, saying: “If it were not the slender lances of pine, This would be to thy hurt, Young Donald Gorm.”[48] TAIBHSE CHOIMHLIG. Peter Brown, at Dun Crosg, in Glen Lochy, hid a ploughshare (_coltair_), and died without telling where. In consequence his ghost long haunted a waterfall in the neighbourhood (_Eas Choimhlig_), but no one had the courage to speak to it and ascertain the cause of its unrest. In every settled community, the ploughshare is of greater value, though less glory is attached to it than the sword or any other weapon, and in the Highlands, the same terrors were attached to the hiding of so useful an instrument, which afterwards, and in a more commercial state of society, were believed to follow the secreting of gold. The unhappy man who hid it, and died without revealing his secret, could not rest in his grave. Peter Brown’s ghost was commonly seen as a roebuck (_boc-earba_), that followed people passing the ravine of Coilig after dark, but also as a horse, dog, man, etc., and disappeared only about forty years ago. A weaver had the courage to meet it, and had a long talk with it. He was told what would happen to his family, and that his daughter, whose marriage was then spoken of, would never marry. When he returned home he took to his bed and never rose. There is now a bridge where the ford was formerly, and it was at the top of the bank above the ford the ghost was seen. It once fought a strong man, and the marks of the conflict long remained on the ground and trees. KINGAIRLOCH, ARGYLESHIRE.