You will have plenty of time to get to the top and to return before the galleys come along." A quarter of an hour later the captain, with Matteo and Francis, landed on the ledge, and took the place of the sentries, and in twenty minutes a simultaneous exclamation burst from them, as a Genoese galley was seen rowing rapidly along.
"They have sent only one galley," Francis said.

"Of course, they would know that it was sufficiently strong to overpower us without difficulty.

I suppose one has gone west, and the others have put out to sea in different directions.

That certainly was the best course they could have adopted, and it is very lucky that we did not attempt to escape seaward, for they would assuredly have had us.

I suppose, captain, you intend to sail tonight." "Certainly," the captain replied.