Before we board her I should disguise myself as a Turkish slave, and as such Sir John should hand me over to the officer in command of the galley, giving him a letter of private instructions from you as to my disposal.

If they have other slaves on board I would ask that I should be kept apart from them, as well as from the rowers of the galley.

On being landed I should be sent to the prison where I saw the officer enter last night, and the slaves and rowers should be distributed among the other prisons.

Thus, then, the slaves I should be placed with would only know that I had arrived in the galley with other slaves captured by it.

I have no doubt I should be able to maintain my assumed character, and should in a short time be taken into the confidence of the others, and should learn what is going on.