What do you think, Jacques ?" "I should say you were right in what you said last night, captain.
They must have got an idea that our rendezvous is somewhere hereabouts, though they don't know for certain where, and they are searching all the island round.

If they come along here like that we shall be caught in a trap.

A vessel might sail close by without suspecting there was an entrance here, however hard they might be looking for it; but if they send boats rowing along the shore they couldn't help finding it.

Still, there is nothing to prevent our sailing away now, as the island is between us and them." "That is so," the captain said.

"But if they come while we are away, in the first place they would capture all the booty in the stores, and in the second place they might lie quiet in the harbor and would sink the other ships when they returned.