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 THE DESMOND REBELLION. 573 kerchiefs ' were found, a cloak or two, and the Legate's < masking furniture/ 'Sanctus Bulls, crucifixes, vest- ments and chalices/ This was all which the palace of the Prince Palatine of Kerry yielded in the shape of household spoil. His wealth was in his cattle, which were driven in and devoured by the troops. The next day they went on to Castlemaine, where Ormond joined them, having in his train MacCartymore, who, believing Desmond's day to be done, hoped by making himself useful to secure a share of the plunder. Again dividing, Pelbam marched on to Dingle, destroying as he went, with Ormond parallel to him on the opposite of the bay, the two parties watching one another's course at night across the water by the flames of the burning cottages. The fleet was in the harbour at Yentry, and Winter and the other officers came on shore for a pleasant meeting with their friends. 1 ' Here,' says Sir Nicholas White, Fulke Greville and Captain Bingham 'climbed a crag to fetch an eagle from its nest,' light episodes of en- tertainment to relieve the monotony of destruction. Sir Edward Fenton, another of PelLam's party who records the daily proceedings, regrets that on their way from the Island the sport had generally been bad. They had 1 The harbours of Ventry and Dingle are but two miles apart. Sir N. White, who accompanied the ex- pedition, gives the following account of them. 'Ventry,' he says, 'is called in Irish Coon Fyntra or Whitesand Haven ; Dingle is called Coon Edaf Derick or Red Ox Haven; it took that name from the drown- ing of an ox in the haven at the first coming over of Englishmen from Cornwall, who brought cattle with them.' Diary of the Expedition of June, 1580, by Sir Nicholas White.
 * my Lord Justice and I gathered cockles for our supper.'