Sentence:  "Saul of my pody, put you are wrang there, my friend," answered Robin, with composure; "it is your fat Englishmen that eat up our Scots cattle, puir things." / "I wish there was a summat to eat up their drovers," said another; "a plain Englishman canna make bread without a <WSD>kenning</WSD> of them." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Sight, view; "specifically" a distant view at sea.