There is not a pedestrian in the total country, but all go on horseback, on extremely small and lank horses. We then came to a good sq. where there were being gentlemen on horseback, and armed tents, and we learnt that outdoors the metropolis there were being extra horsemen, for this was the day on which the Sultan is saluted.
For illustration, the northern Hebridean islands of Lewis and Harris and Skye seem to have been held by the Crovan dynasty, then represented by the reigning Haraldr Óláfsson, King of the Isles. On the other hand, the family's position in Garmoran and the Hebrides may well have stemmed from its marital alliance with the Crovan dynasty, an affiliation carried out at some issue in advance of Ruaidhrí's expulsion from Kintyre.