[16] Cotta, _Short Discovery of Unobserved Dangers_, 1612. Quoted by Beand, iii. 3. [17] The author wrote this chapter in 1874.—ED. [18] Dia bheannachadh do shūil Deur muin mu d’ chridhe, An luchaidh san tom ’S an otm ri theine. [19] Al. Early on Sunday, to a level stone on the shore. [20] Teine dé air do bhus, Rug do mhàthair chéil ubh, ’S thug thu fhéin mach an gur. [21] Beairt ribeach Dubhan bradach Slat cham chaoruinn. [22] Buainidh mise a mòthan An luibh a dh’òrduich Criosd Chaneil eagal losga—teine dhuit No cogadh nam ban shìth. [23] Achlusan Challum Chille, Gun sireadh gun iarraidh, Cha d’thoir iad as do chadal thu, Is cha ghabh thu fiabhrus. Buainidh mis’ an donn duilleach, Luibh a fhuaradh an taobh bearraidh, Cha tugainn e do dhuine Gun tuilleadh air mo bheannachd. [24] Buainidh mis’ an t-achlasan, ’S e luibh nam ban fionn e, ’S e chuirm eireachdail e ’S a chuirt shòghail. Luibh fhirionn e, luibh bhoirionn e, Luibh bh’aig eòin an allt e, Luibh bh’aig Ni Math na eiginn ’S aig Chrisd air aineol, ’S b’fhearr a dhuais do’n laimh dheas, Am bitheadh e. [25] Buainidh mis’ an t-iubhar àigh Roimh chòig aisneam croma Chriosd An ainm an athar, a Mhic, ’s an Spioraid Naoimh Air bhàthadh, air ghàbhadh, ’s air ghriobhadh. [26] Buainidh mis’ a chathair làir Mar bhuain Moire le da làimh, Buainidh mi le m’ neart i, ’S buainidh mi le m’ ghlaic i, etc. [27] “_A’v a chuis a choinneal_ _Thuair mi an’am laimh ga cumail_ _Um sheasamh a’ s an deathaich_ _’S cha be sin m’ abhaist_ _Un tigh mo mhathar ’s m’ athar._” “A’r a shocair a bhuinneag ’S math a b’aithne dhomhsa chuideachd Aona mhart air thri sinnean ’S naoinear do mhuinntir.” “Cha be sin an gnathas Bha ’n tigh m’ athur no momhathar Cha robh aona mhart air thré sinnean Na naoinear ’a mhuinntir Ach naoi slabhrinnean òir An crocha ’n tigh Righ Sionnach.” [28] Others say his servant man saw her first, a tradition which finds a ready explanation for the whole account, in an attempt to discourage Hugh by means of a prevailing superstition. [29] After his victory Dowart made prisoner of his brother, Lochbuy, and sent him to Kerneburg, a stronghold of which the Dowarts became heritable keepers, on one of the Treshinish Islands, near Staffa, west of Mull. He sent “Black Sarah Macphie” (_Mòr dhu nic a Phì_), from _Suidhe_, in the Ross of Mull, the most ungainly woman he could get, so ugly that she was nicknamed “The Pack-saddle” (_an t-srathair_), to take care of him. Black Sarah, however, became the mother of _Murcha Gearr_, who ultimately made himself master of his paternal acres. [30] Campbell of Islay’s _West Highland Tales_, ii. 83.