That if they kept on they would reach the place before daybreak.

Hanz assured the men that every word Chapman said concerning Kidd was true, and this inspired their confidence, for they honestly believed his father to be an intimate friend of the pirate, and of course ought to know all about his money.
The boatmen now rested their oars and proceeded to refresh themselves.
And while they were doing this, and wondering what this night expedition really meant, Hanz smoked his pipe and nursed his courage.

In his heart, however, he wished himself out of the affair and in a more honest occupation.

As for Chapman, he told a number of stories tended to excite the cupidity of the boatmen.

After resting an hour or two the party proceeded about five miles further up the river, and landed just at daybreak on a point jutting into the west side of the river, and just above which there was a dilapidated little cabin, inhabited by a laboring man and his wife.
It would not do to disturb these poor people at so early an hour, Chapman said, nor to tell them what sort of a mission we were on.
Thereupon Hanz and he proceeded up the bank of the river, to make, as he said, a discovery.