And too many men of intelligence testify to having seen Hy Brasil at the same moment, when they have been together, or separated, as during the summer of 1908, for it to be explained away as an ordinary illusion of the senses.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
About 563, when in his forty-second year, and accompanied by twelve companions, Columba found a resting-place on the little island of Hy or Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, whence he set himself to the great work of his life-the conversion of the Pictish tribes beyond the Grampians.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
If one manner of behaving was right the other must prove wrong, for as the wise philosopher Ning-Hy was wont to say: "Where the road divides, there stand two Ning-Hys."
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc