I have been thinking it over since you left.

With luck we might get her safely out of the bay, but the galleys row four feet to our one, and as they would be sure to send some one way, and some the other, along the coast; they would pick us up again in two or three hours after daylight." "Nevertheless we have settled it, captain.

We have found a place where we can hide her, and the Genoese might search the coast for a month without finding her." "If that be so it is possible," the captain said eagerly, "and you may be sure you will not find us backward in doing our best." Francis described the nature and position of the rock which would afford a shelter, and the means by which they had ascertained that there was plenty of water for the Lido behind it.
"It seems plausible," the captain said when he had concluded, "and I am quite ready to make the attempt, if, in your opinion, it can be done.
You are Messer Polani's representative, and for my own sake as well as his, I would do anything which promises a chance of recapturing the ship.

Besides, as you say, there is little danger in it, for we can take to the boats and make for the shore if discovered.
"The Lido is still lying where we anchored her.

They can have no fear of a recapture, for they would know that they could overtake us easily enough.