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The bay of Gourock is our best shelter , and thence we can march southward towards Largs , or to whatsoever spot the enemy determine to make their landing place . '' '' 'T is well , '' said Kenric . `` And furnish me with the best horse you can find , '' added Sir Piers , `` for 't is on horseback that I would fight . '' So at noon that day seven galleys hove anchor in the bay of Kilchattan , with each a company of seven score men ; in all a thousand gallant islanders sailed that day from Bute . Creeping up the shores of the island , past Kerrycroy and Ascog , they steered across by Toward Point . And by this time the fleet of King Hakon had disappeared into the channel that flows between the two Cumbrae islands . As Kenric 's ships crossed the Clyde a drizzling rain came on , and the wind began to blow in fitful gusts from the southwest .