So here they were so hard bestead,

Of salt water they dramack made,

And of it hastily did eat,

Hunger for sauce, made it good meat.

If e’er I mount a throne, said he,

I’ll mind who din’d this day with me.

A bottle of brandy then he took,

And to them all drank better luck.

So then for Benbecula,

They hoisted sail, and steer’d awa’: