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Hardly had lie started before Hia, a virgin, who had resolved 

 on accompanying Kiara, came down to the shore, and to her dis- 

 may saw the boat already in the offing. But a leaf was floating 

 on the waves. With a stick she drew it towards her, and trusting 

 to Grod stepped on to it, when the leaf expanded, and she was 

 wafted upon it over the sea, and arrived in Cornwall, where she 

 landed in Hayle Bay, and constructed for herself a cabin, where 

 now stands S. Ives. 



Sometime later Fingar and his party arrived in the same 

 harbour, and disembarked. On landing, Fingar found a little 

 dwelling in which lived a holy virgin, but unwilling to incommode 

 her, the party passed on and went to Connerton. Here was a 

 worthy woman who was ready and willing to entertain the party ; 

 and, to make beds for them, she at once tore down all the thatch 

 from her roof. She had but a single cow, but that she immedi- 

 ately offered the party. They fell on it, killed, cut it up, roasted 

 and ate it. After that, Fingar collected the bones, put them into 

 the skin. The entire party, led by the seven bishops, prayed, and 

 up stood the cow, lowed, shook herself, and suffered herself at 

 once to be milked. After this the cow always gave three times as 

 much milk as any other, and from her arose a special breed which 

 continued in Cornwall to the time of Anselm who wrote the legend. 

 The next thing to be done was to restore the roof which the 

 woman " had torn away," and this was accordingly done. 



The company now went on their way, eastwards. S. Hia no 

 more appears in the tale. She had apparently taken huff at their 

 sailing without her, and she remained where she had established 

 herself, and lucky it was for her that she did so. News had reached 

 Tewdrig, the prince, then at Eiviere on the creek opening east out 

 of the Hayle estuary. He did not relish this invasion of Irish, 

 and he armed men and went in pursuit. Fingar and his party 

 had slept at Connerton, and now they moved south in a body to 

 the point where now stands the church of Gwinear. Here Fingar 

 and a companion left them to go forward and explore the ground. 

 He came, we are told, to a certain valley, where he sat down. 

 Being thirsty, he di'ove his staff into the ground, and elicited a 

 copious spring of beautifully clear water, '* utriusque duplici saxo 

 decenter inclusus, usque in hodiernam diem copiosa vena fluitare 

 non cessat." 



