It will be simply ruin to our scheme." Fortunately, however, the fog speedily lifted.

The vessels closed up together, and, in two hours after starting, arrived off the entrances to the channels.

Pisani anchored until daylight appeared, and nearly five thousand men were then landed on the Brondolo's shore, easily driving back the small detachment placed there.

But the alarm was soon given, and the Genoese poured out in such overwhelming force that the Venetians were driven in disorder to their boats, leaving behind them six hundred killed, drowned, or prisoners.
But Pisani had not supposed that he would be able to hold his position in front of the whole Genoese force, and he had succeeded in his main object.

While the fighting had been going on on shore, a party of sailors had managed to moor a great ship, laden with stones, across the channel.