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on the island of Cuba. Passing through the Straits of Bahama, the expedition arrived within six leagues of the Havaunah on the Gth of June ; a landing was effected on the following day : and on the 9th the troops took up a position between Coximar and the Moro, a fort which it was deemed necessary to besiege and capture before an attack was made on the town. In this service great hardships had to be endured; a thin soil, hardly sufficient to cover the troops in their approaches, a scarcity of water, and the labour of dragging the artillery several miles over a rocky country and under a burning sun, called forth the efforts of the army and navy. The works were carried on, the sallies of the enemy were repulsed, and the Moro fort was captured by storm on the 30th of July. A series of batteries were erected against the town ; and on the llth of August they opened so well-directed a fire that the guns of the garrison were silenced, and flags of truce were hung out from the town and ships in the harbour.


 * The regiment lost a number of men on this

important service : Lieut. Skene was among the killed ; Capt. Tyrwhitt and Lieut. Winter died from the effects of climate. After the capture of the Havannah the regiment was stationed at that place eleven months."

I have Army Lists of 1756 and 1777, but cannot find " Wiggins " or " O'Higgins " in either. W. S.

COLLINS (10 th S. i. 329, 398). Bardsley's ' Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames ' (1901), p. 196, says Collins means the son of Nicholas, and the volume gives a list of the name distributed through England from 1273 to a recent period.

If MR. JACKSON consults the British Museum Catalogue, he will find there are no fewer than 220 authors named Collins, and twenty-five of the name appear in the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography.'

I have no means of ascertaining how many Collinses there are in England", Scot- land, and America; but we are not alto- gether left in the cold in Ireland, for we see by Mr. Matheson's report on 'Surnames in Ireland ' (Dublin, 1894) there were 15,600 Collinses in Ireland when the census was taken in 1891, and they are distributed through the four provinces of Ireland.

PATRICK. Dublin.

"BARRAR" (10 th S. i. 349, 434, 478). On my purchasing in North Tawton, Devon, some coarse (hempen?) canvas or sacking, it was described to me in the shop and after- wards by farm-folk as barms. I was the more struck by the word, as my purpose was to size and paint on the material, and use it by way of arras to veil a disfigured wall ; and I still wonder what, if any, is the connexion between the terms. The true tapestry we know took its name from the

town where it was produced in the province of Artois, now Pas de Calais.

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

BUILDING CUSTOMS AND FOLK-LORE (10 th S. i. 407). Probably the different types of cottages in the counties are to be accounted for in the varying material ready at hand for building purposes rather than in racial divergences, as in some counties flint abounds, in some timber, and in others stone, <fec. See Thos. Hudson Turner's ' Domestic Architecture in England,' part ii. of the period from Kichard II. to Henry VIII., pp. 21-3 ; ' Homes of Other Days,' by Thomas Wright, F.S.A. ; ' The Evolution of the English House,' by Sidney O. Addy, M.A., 1898; and the Leisure Hour, February, 1884, 'Home Life in the Olden Time. ;

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

An Arab and Turkish custom is to kill a sheep accompanied by prayer at the com- mencement or completion of the building.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. [E. L.-W. also recommends Mr. Addy's book.]

BEADNELL FAMILY (9 th S. xii. 469 ; 10 th S. i. 17). In Highgate Cemetery is a monument to the memory of the Beadnell family, with crest, arms, and motto, but no date. The motto is " Nee Timide Nee Temere," and the inscription as follows : This catacomb contains the mortal remains of Mary Ann Beadnell,

John Beadnell,

Elizabeth Beadnell,

John Beadnell,

Elizabeth Earle,

Charlotte Armie.

It is regrettable that no date of any descrip- tion is on this tombstone.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D., F.R.S.A.L Baltimore House, Bradford.

"SANGUIS": ITS DERIVATION (10 th S. i. 462). Surely the word sanguis comes from the root sag, sak. It is probably connected with ungere, sucus, snjere, and with our own word sap. Af/xa is generally referred to a root sa, to scatter or sift ; cf. o-a-w, to sift. Sa appears as si in afjuoc, which seems to represent an I.E. form *sai-mant, damp. Cf. Vani9ek, vol. ii. p. 976.

H. A. STRONG.

NATALESE (10 th S. i. 446). In commending this word as a designation of the inhabitants of Natal, H. 2 seems to overlook the merits of its alternative, Natalians. To me it seems the big battalions are on the side of the latter term, unless mental associations and etymo-