I was within an ace of being defeated today; and you may not be close at hand to come to my rescue next time.

And now to business.
"Tomorrow morning I will set the crews to get out your stores, and distribute them as required, and will place four hundred prisoners in your hold, and you shall carry them to Venice with my despatches announcing the victory.

The other four hundred Genoese I shall send, in the galley that was dismasted yesterday, to Candia, to be imprisoned there.

I shall send prize crews home in the galleys we have captured; and as soon as they are refitted and manned, and rejoin me, I shall sail in search of Doria and his fleet.

I shall first cruise up the Adriatic, in case he may have gone that way to threaten Venice, and I can the more easily receive such reinforcements as may have been prepared for me." The following day was spent in unloading the vessel.