Use OCR or similar software to capture the following text: We entered Castle Bay on a following tide. We found good holding ground at the northern end of the bay just as the charts said. The settling sun lit Kisimul Castle with a blazing glow. I had always wanted to visit the isle of Barra as it is the ancestral home of the McNeil clan. It seemed strange that an isle named after an Irish missionary is now mostly owned by an American who teaches law in Chicago. Hopefully things have changed since Irish missionary days as he was sent here to replace his predecessor who had been eaten by the inhabitants. According to Haswell-Smith’s book ‘The Scottish Islands”, the MeNeils have always been able to talk themselves out of sticky situations.