You won't have much longer to row, for the wind is coming.

The Spaniards are after us, but they won't be up for a quarter of an hour, and I hope we shall get it before that.
Remember, every yard we can keep away from them is of importance.
Put your backs to it, lads." The Swan carried four boats and, strongly manned as these were, she was gliding through the water at a fair rate.

It was five minutes before another breath of wind came, but this lasted three or four minutes, and greatly relieved the strain from the hawsers.
"She is going through the water now," the captain said.

"They cannot be gaining very much upon us, at present.
"Confound it!" he added, a minute later.

"There is an end of it again." The boats were now but half a mile away, and the voices of the officers, urging the rowers to exert themselves, could be plainly heard, On the Swan the officers were all gazing in the direction from which the wind was to come.