The plan has two parts. The first is to assure an even more drunken Lamanite guard, and the second is to use the "secret pass." The term "secret" certainly presupposes that it was little known, and certainly unknown to the Lamanites. The plan therefore was to diminish the Lamanite awareness, and then to escape from an unexpected outlet. We may be assured that the Lamanite camp was created to guard any obvious path out of the land. To be effective, this plan relied upon the Lamanite ignorance of the secret pass.