[10] The tale has this much truth in it, that one of the ill-fated Spanish Armada was blown up in Tobermory Harbour, A.D. 1589. The wonder would be, in those days when public news travelled slowly or not at all, if the history or object of the Spanish fleet should be known in the Highlands, or that it should be known to the Mull people that there was any ship in the fleet but the one that came to their own coasts.
[11] A family of this name has had down to the present day a reputation for witchcraft. The last of them was known to the writer as a poor woman of much shrewdness and inoffensive character. She professed great skill in healing cattle by means of charms and such-like white witchcraft.
[12] Cùl a’s aghaidh mo spòige ri Macillduinn.
[13] Tha m’iteagun’s m’atagun ag atadh ris na h-eibhleagun.
“’Sann a nochd a thorchanaich leinn
Mharbhadh an urchuill earchaill mhòr.”
“An do mharbhadh Maol Meanachan nan cat? Mar bhi na h-uile oidhche fhuair mi biadh ’us bainne na d’theaglach, bhiodh do sgòrnan fada riabhach ann am ìnein. Innis do Bhruc Riabhach gun d’eug Bladrum.”
[15] Mhami, mhami! tha mo sheanair ag éiridh.
[16] Cotta, Short Discovery of Unobserved Dangers, 1612. Quoted by Beand, iii. 3.