They little dream how well we are prepared.

Did they know of our fort here, I question whether they would have ventured upon attacking us at all, but would have waited till we were well at sea, and then our chance would have been a slight one.
"Well, gentlemen, you will allow that the two days were not wasted.

I think, now, the pirates are well inside the bay.

In half an hour we shall have light enough to see them.
"There, listen! There's the splash of their anchors.

There, again! I fancy there are two ships moored broadside on, stem and stern." All this time, the work on shore had been conducted in absolute silence, and the pirates could have had no intimation that their presence was discovered.