When they find how slowly they gain, they may give up the chase and think us not worth the trouble.
"Jacopo," he said to an old sailor who was rowing in the bow, and who already was getting exhausted from the exertion, "do you lay in your oar and come aft.

I will take your place." At the end of an hour the galley was little more than a quarter of a mile away.
"We had better stop," the captain said.

"We have no chance of getting away, and the longer the chase the more furious they will be.

What do you think, signor ?" "I agree with you," Francis replied.

"We have done all that we could.
There is no use in rowing longer." The oars fell motionless in the water, and a few minutes later the long galley came rushing up by their side.
"A fine row you have given us, you dogs!" a man shouted angrily as she came alongside.