In the outer Hebrides droves were man who came to the island market to buy cattle most of these drovers were farmers from the mainland making the long journey twice a year it was often a dangerous too because of ford between the islands you could only cross the ford when the tide was low if you were late and you were still walking across the ford when the see came in you were in trouble luckily there were sometime very small islands nearby where traveller could sit and wait for the sea to come in and go out again a long wait between sount units and benne ulna is the south ford with Justine small island a short way from the creagorry shore and that is where the famous story about donal happenened sometime in the 1890