 | Robert Forsyth - Agriculture - 1805 - 668 pages
...obliged the sailors to make for this island of Amonia, which they reached with the greatest risk and difficulty. Here they found a poor hermit, who lived...shell-fish he could pick up on the shore. Nevertheless, out of these small means he entertained the king and his retinue for three days, the time which they... | |
 | Robert Forsyth - Architecture - 1806 - 652 pages
...obliged the sailors to make for this island of Amonia, which they reached with the greatest risk and difficulty. Here they found a poor hermit, who lived...performed service in a small chapel, supporting himself bj the milk of one cow, and the shell-fish he could pick up on the shore. Nevertheless, out of these... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 300 pages
...obliged the sailors to make for this island of Ammonia, which they reached with the greatest risk and difficulty. Here they found a poor hermit, who lived a religious life, according to the rules of St. Columha, and performed service in a small chapel, supporting himself by the milk of one cow, and the... | |
 | 1828 - 488 pages
...obliged the sailors to make for this island of Amonia, which they reached with the greatest risk and difficulty. Here they found a poor hermit, who lived...the milk of one cow, and the shellfish he could pick i'p on the shore. Nevertheless, out of these small means he entertained the king and his retinue for... | |
 | John M. Leighton - Fife (Scotland) - 1840 - 404 pages
...name of the island is derived. The origin of the religious house, of which the ruins still remain, is thus related by Fordun : — " About the year 1123,...could pick up on the shore ; nevertheless, on these small means he entertained the king and his retinue for three days, the time which they were confined... | |
 | 412 pages
...were successful iu their attempt, aad on landing upon the island found that its sole inhabitant was a poor hermit, who lived a religious life according to the rules of St Columba, eking out a subsistence on the milk of one cow, and the shell-fish which the rocks afforded. Sibbald,... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1877 - 832 pages
...make for this island, (¿Kino na,) which they readied with the greatest difficulty. Here they found я poor hermit, who lived a religious life according...supporting himself by the milk of one cow, and the shelfish ne could pick up on the shore ; nevertheless, on these small means he entertained the king... | |
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Amonia, which they reached with the greatest risk and difficulty. Here they found a poor hermit, who lived a religious life according to the rules of St Columba, and performed service in a small chapel, supporting himself by the milk of one cow, and the... 