I'm just doing my bit for the isles! The "Polly" was left on Hartamul (The magnetic rock near Calbhaidh) for months. The local all being fishermen, took it to be abandoned as a wreak. So they took it as free salvage. They found everything a Government, and CROWN needed for a life in exile. This included the 32 brands of whisky. Anyway Officialdom kept quiet untill the political situation would allow the Government to salvage what they could, without too much attention. Only the Excise men, and Laird wanted to make an example, and they found one in a group of young men that foolishly went back just one more time. The bard of this song was one of them. The biggest insult to the entire story is that the locals got hounded for taking the "Duty Free" for there own use, yet the Laird was selling the confiscated whisky in his Hotle!

The song is in the collection of Margaret Fay Shaw of Canna. I'll be back with the translation soon.

Aodh