about midday
`` You are in the right , Señor , '' answers Jack , `` for I doubt it must be a hard task to forget that Mistress Judith is my daughter , as it is for a loving father to hold from chiding of his own flesh and blood ; so I pray you , Madam '' -LRB- to Moll -RRB- , `` bear that in mind and vex me no more . '' We lay this lesson seriously to heart , Dawson and I , for the Don 's hint that we might end our career in gaol did still rankle woundily in our minds . And so very soberly we went out of the forest of Elche in the night on mules lent us by Sidi ben Ahmed , with a long cavalcade of mules charged with merchandise for embarking on board the pirates ' vessel , and an escort of some half-dozen fierce-looking corsairs armed with long firelocks and a great store of awesome crooked knives stuck in their waist-cloths . After journeying across the plain , we came about midday to the seaboard , and there we spied , lying in a sheltered bay , a long galley with three masts , each dressed with a single cross-spar for carrying a leg-of-mutton sail , and on the shore a couple of ship 's boats with a company of men waiting to transport our goods and us aboard . And here our hearts quaked a bit at the thought of trusting ourselves in the hands of these same murderous-looking pirates . Nevertheless , when our time came we got us into their boat , recommending ourselves very heartily to God 's mercy , and so were rowed out to the galley , where we were very civilly received by an old Moor with a white beard , who seemed well acquainted with Don Sanchez . Then the merchandise being all aboard , and the anchor up , the men went to their oars , a dozen of each side , and rowed us out of the bay until , catching a little wind of air , the sails were run up , and we put out to sea very bravely .