Chapter VII: Part 7

[32] The helm was worked by being caught by the shoulders of the steersman as it worked backwards and forwards (_’g a cheapadh le ’shlinneanan a null ’s a nall_).

[33] _A’ chama-dhubh_, the bone of the animal between the knee and shoulder-point (_na bha de’n chnàimh eadar an glùn agus an t-alt-lùthainn_).

[34] This discussion is doubtless concerning the spot where tradition says the bristle of the boar wounded Diarmaid when he measured the length of the dead beast.--A. C.

[35] Hector MacLean, Ballygrant, Islay: now dead.--A. C.

[36] Suobhcail or saobh chiall.

[37] Hairy, rough, shaggy.

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Transcriber’s Note

In this file, text in _italics_ is indicated by underscores, and text in =bold= by equals signs.

Obvious printer’s errors have been silently corrected; as far as possible, however, original spelling and formatting have been retained. No corrections have been made to any Gaelic text as printed, with the sole exception of the third occurence of “Fire fire nì mi umad” on page 145, which had been misprinted.

In the printed book, an unnumbered page containing an editor’s note was inserted between pages 34 and 35. In this file, the note has been indented, given the subheading “Editor’s Note”, and moved directly after the paragraph to which it seems to refer, on page 35.

Footnotes were presented inconsistently in the printed book, sometimes appearing at the bottom of the page and sometimes at the ends of sections. In this book, all notes have been standardised and moved to the end of the relevant section, sometimes alongside a “Notes” section which was already present.