238 Alexander Goodman More. [1870 



taining sea- worms of various kinds,* and labelled "Galway, 

 1871," is perhaps the best memorial of his second visit to 

 Roundstone. 



There is, however, a stray note among 1 his papers, 

 evidently of this date, which shows that other organisms 

 besides marine Annelida occasionally claimed part of his 

 attention. It is headed 



Musha-Musha ! 



In the West of Ireland it is not uncommon to hear the expression 

 " Moosha-Moosha," and if the inquiring traveller asks the meaning of 

 these words it is very difficult to obtain any explanation. It seems as 

 if it were a kind of fetish, or secret, and the local equivalent of the 

 Arabic " Allah-il-Allah," the French saying " Soyez tranquille," or 

 the Lotus-Eater's " Let us alone." 



Let us alone ! Just think how commonly such a phrase is heard in 

 school and in street. Let us alone ! Let us sleep ! Let us rest ! Let 

 us die ! In Connemara this principle of Moosha-Moosha is carried out 

 in its fullest extent in many various fashions. 



In the morning the carman (sleeping sweetly after his over-night 

 whiskey, or without it) when called by his wife says " Moosha-Moosha, " 

 and lies on snugly dozing for another hour or two ; while his neighbours, 

 not getting up most likely, are doing exactly the same thing as himself, 

 and are carrying out, consciously or not, the acknowledged and received 

 practice of Moosha-Moosha. 



Another version of the same words is, "Well-well." "Well" is 

 the sentinel's cry, watching over some post of danger. Is it so in 

 Connemara ? Shall I tell you of the beggars I met, who said always 

 " Moosha-Moosha " ? Of the people who saw me walking (and I hope 

 not disturbing them) at VII. A.M. on the streets of Roundstone, always 

 saying " Moosha-Moosha " ? I have not yet reached the extreme pro- 

 fundities of this mysterious word. 



But the lazy loiterer after cattle, the unemployed, the people who 

 neither wish to nor try to be anything else, or care about Workers' 1 

 industries these are the people who say all day long, Moosha-Moosha, 

 Allah-il-Allah. 



Terebellides straemii. Sthenelais boa. 



Leontes dumerillii. Phyllodoce groenlandica. 



Lycidice ninetta. Harmothoe imbricata. 



Onuphis sicula. Lepidonotus squamatus. 



Glycera capitata. Carinella annulata. 



