“...Staffa ordered his barge to be manned; and thinking, according to the Scottish adage, “Bode a gown if gowd, and ye'll aye get the slieve of it,” that is, “Try, and you will get something of what you try for,” and that, if we could not reach the islands both of Staffa and Iona, we might reach one of them, we embarked with the piper, who sat at the head of the boat, and played some merry and mournful tunes, but which I could not ascertain, as we committed ourselves to the ocean; when he ceased, the strokesman of our rowers commenced a spirited Gaelic song, the chorus of which ended with “Hatyin, foam! foam, Hatyin, foam! foam, foam, Hatyin, foam! foam, eri!”* in which the principal singer introduced some peculiarly shrill notes, beating time very smartly with his hand upon the oar, and producing a brisk and agreeable effect; this had such influence upon his comrades, that, to borrow a marine expression “we flew through the water,” and with great velocity passed Inchkenneth, which I shall mention hereafter, the black basaltic rocks of Ulva, and the Cave of Mackinnow, which time and the weather would not admit of our reaching. After between three and four hours of hard and incessant rowing, we reached one of the great objects of our voyage, and landed on Staffa.”
[Caledonian Sketches, Or, A Tour Through Scotland in 1807, Carr, 1809]
Sir John Carr (1772–1832) –– English barrister and (travel) writer.

* See also: The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With S. Johnson, Boswell, 1785 (above)