eleven o'clock
_ Gobbo _ . By God 's sonties , ` twill be a hard way to hit . '' _ The Merchant of Venice _ . At eleven o'clock that night we four -- the Princess , Marc ` antonio , Stephanu , and I -- hoisted sail and stood away from the north shore of Giraglia , carrying a fair wind with us . Our boat had been very cunningly chosen for us by Marc ` antonio out of the small flotilla which my father had hired at Cape Corso for the assault . She was undecked , measured some eighteen feet over-all , and carried a fair-sized lateen sail ; but her great merit for our purpose , lay in her looks . The inhabitants of Cape Corso -LRB- as the reader knows -RRB- have neither the patriotism nor the prejudices of their fellow-islanders ; and this -LRB- however her owner had come by her -RRB- was a boat of Genoese build .