In obedience to Ruggiero's orders, staples were driven through the links of his chain deep into the deck, so that he was forced to remain in a sitting or lying posture.

The captain of the Naxos came and sat beside him.
"Who is this pirate captain, Messer Francisco, who thus knows and has an enmity against you?
By his speech he is surely a Venetian.

And yet, how comes a Venetian in command of a pirate ?" "That man is Ruggiero Mocenigo--the same who twice attempted to carry off Messer Polani's daughters.

The second time he succeeded, and would have been tried for the offence by the state had he not, aided by a band of Paduans, escaped from the keeping of his guard." "Of course I heard of it, signor.

I was away at sea at the time, but I heard how you came up at the moment when the padrone's gondoliers had been overcome, and rescued his daughters.