nder the
water."

"And how was that!" I asked of Captain Coll MacDonald.

"He would hold a piece of gold money in each hand when the twig began
to twist and dip. If the gold was under the water, the twig would pull
with a very strong pull, so that he knew. If it was undecided like, he
would hold silver money, and the twig told him the proper message. I
watched him working many a time, and it was very wonderful."

"But he did not find the treasure," I ventured to observe.

"Ah, lad, it was no fault of his," returned the old gentleman. "The
Spanish gold is scattered far and wide over the bottom of the bay, I
have no doubt. Donald Glas MacLean did a very thorough job when he
blew the galleon to hell."

The present Duke of Argyll, brother-in-law of the late King Edward,
bears among the many and noble and resonant titles that are his by
inheritance, several which recall the earlier pages of the history of
the Clan Campbell, the brave days of the feudal Highlands, and the
ancient rights in the Armada Galleon of Tobermory Bay. He is Baron
Inverary, Mull, Morvern, and Tiry; twenty-ninth Baron of Lochow, with
the Celtic title of the Cailean Mo'r, chief of the Clan Campbell, from
Sir Colin Campbell, knighted in 1286; Admiral of the Western Coast and
Islands, Marquis of Lorne and Kintye; Keeper of the Great Seal of
Scotland and of the Castles of Dunstaffnage, Dunoon and Carvick,
Hereditary High Sheriff of the County of Argyll.

He once explained how the ownership of the _Florencia_ galleon came to
his family by means of the ancient grant already quoted. The Campbells
held the admiralty rights of the coast of Mull at the time of the
Armada, and any wreck was lawfully theirs for this reason. The
document was simply a formal confirmation of these rights. The
_Florencia_ was flotsam and jetsam to be taken by whatever chiefs held
the rights of admiralty. A case involving the salmon fishing rights of
a Scottish river was recently decided by virtue of a charter of
admiralty rights granted by Robert the Bruce, who ruled and fought six
hundred years ago.

In order to complete the documentary links of this true story of the
Armada galleon, it may be of interest to quote from a letter recently
received by the author from the present Duke of Argyll, in which he
says:

The galleon was the ship furnished by Tuscany as her contribution to
the Armada. She was called the _Florencia_, or _City of Florence_, and
was commanded