"The custom of these savages is to live like beasts among the mountains, very steep in this part of Ireland where we were lost. They dwell in thatched huts. The men are stout, with graceful features and a fine build; agile as deer. They wear a cloak to cover themselves, and a linen sheet, fold upon fold, on their heads, tied in front," wrote Captain Francisco Cuéllar in October 1589, a year after surviving the shipwreck of the Spanish Armada, the fleet that Philip II sent to attack England.