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1"Very good," said the captain. "Then, as you've heard me very patiently, saying things that I could not prove, hear me a
2few words more. They are putting the powder and the arms in the fore hold. Now, you have a good place under the cabin;
3why not put them there?--first point. Then, you are bringing four of your own people with you, and they tell me some of
4them are to be berthed forward. Why not give them the berths here beside the cabin?--second point." "Any more?" asked
5Mr. Trelawney. "One more," said the captain. "There's been too much blabbing already." "Far too much," agreed the
6doctor. "I'll tell you what I've heard myself," continued Captain Smollett: "that you have a map of an island, that
7there's crosses on the map to show where treasure is, and that the island lies--" And then he named the latitude and
8longitude exactly. "I never told that," cried the squire, "to a soul!" "The hands know it, sir," returned the captain.
9"Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins," cried the squire. "It doesn't much matter who it was," replied the
10doctor. And I could see that neither he nor the captain paid much regard to Mr. Trelawney's protestations. Neither did
11I, to be sure, he was so loose a talker; yet in this case I believe he was really right and that nobody had told the
12situation of the island. "Well, gentlemen," continued the captain, "I don't know who has this map; but I make it a
13point, it shall be kept secret even from me and Mr. Arrow. Otherwise I would ask you to let me resign." "I see," said
14the doctor. "You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my
15friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board. In other words, you fear a mutiny." "Sir," said
16Captain Smollett, "with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth. No captain, sir,
17would be justified in going to sea at all if he had ground enough to say that. As for Mr. Arrow, I believe him
18thoroughly honest; some of the men are the same; all may be for what I know. But I am responsible for the ship's safety
19and the life of every man Jack aboard of her. I see things going, as I think, not quite right. And I ask you to take
20certain precautions or let me resign my berth. And that's all." "Captain Smollett," began the doctor with a smile, "did
21ever you hear the fable of the mountain and the mouse? You'll excuse me, I dare say, but you remind me of that fable.
22When you came in here, I'll stake my wig, you meant more than this." "Doctor," said the captain, "you are smart. When I
23came in here I meant to get discharged. I had no thought that Mr. Trelawney would hear a word." "No more I would," cried
24the squire. "Had Livesey not been here I should have seen you to the deuce. As it is, I have heard you. I will do as you
25desire, but I think the worse of you." "That's as you please, sir," said the captain. "You'll find I do my duty." And
26with that he took his leave. "Trelawney," said the doctor, "contrary to all my notions, I believed you have managed to
27get two honest men on board with you--that man and John Silver." "Silver, if you like," cried the squire; "but as for
28that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English." "Well," says the
29doctor, "we shall see." When we came on deck, the men had begun already to take out the arms and powder, yo-ho-ing at
30their work, while the captain and Mr. Arrow stood by superintending. The new arrangement was quite to my liking. The
31whole schooner had been overhauled; six berths had been made astern out of what had been the after-part of the main
32hold; and this set of cabins was only joined to the galley and forecastle by a sparred passage on the port side. It had
33been originally meant that the captain, Mr. Arrow, Hunter, Joyce, the doctor, and the squire were to occupy these six
34berths. Now Redruth and I were to get two of them and Mr. Arrow and the captain were to sleep on deck in the companion,
35which had been enlarged on each side till you might almost have called it a round-house. Very low it was still, of
36course; but there was room to swing two hammocks, and even the mate seemed pleased with the arrangement. Even he,
37perhaps, had been doubtful as to the crew, but that is only guess, for as you shall hear, we had not long the benefit of
38his opinion. We were all hard at work, changing the powder and the berths, when the last man or two, and Long John along
39with them, came off in a shore-boat. The cook came up the side like a monkey for cleverness, and as soon as he saw what
40was doing, "So ho, mates!" says he. "What's this?" "We're a-changing of the powder, Jack," answers one. "Why, by the
41powers," cried Long John, "if we do, we'll miss the morning tide!" "My orders!" said the captain shortly. "You may go
42below, my man. Hands will want supper." "Aye, aye, sir," answered the cook, and touching his forelock, he disappeared at
43once in the direction of his galley. "That's a good man, captain," said the doctor. "Very likely, sir," replied Captain
44Smollett. "Easy with that, men--easy," he ran on, to the fellows who were shifting the powder; and then suddenly
45observing me examining the swivel we carried amidships, a long brass nine, "Here you, ship's boy," he cried, "out o'
46that! Off with you to the cook and get some work." And then as I was hurrying off I heard him say, quite loudly, to the
47doctor, "I'll have no favourites on my ship." I assure you I was quite of the squire's way of thinking, and hated the
48captain deeply. X The Voyage All that night we were in a great bustle getting things stowed in their place, and boatfuls
49of the squire's friends, Mr. Blandly and the like, coming off to wish him a good voyage and a safe return. We never had
50a night at the Admiral Benbow when I had half the work; and I was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boatswain
51sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the capstan-bars. I might have been twice as weary, yet I would not have left
52the deck, all was so new and interesting to me--the brief commands, the shrill note of the whistle, the men bustling to
53their places in the glimmer of the ship's lanterns. "Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave," cried one voice. "The old one,"
54cried another. "Aye, aye, mates," said Long John, who was standing by, with his crutch under his arm, and at once broke
55out in the air and words I knew so well: "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest--" And then the whole crew bore chorus:--
56"Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" And at the third "Ho!" drove the bars before them with a will. Even at that exciting
57moment it carried me back to the old Admiral Benbow in a second, and I seemed to hear the voice of the captain piping in
58the chorus. But soon the anchor was short up; soon it was hanging dripping at the bows; soon the sails began to draw,
59and the land and shipping to flit by on either side; and before I could lie down to snatch an hour of slumber the
60HISPANIOLA had begun her voyage to the Isle of Treasure. I am not going to relate that voyage in detail. It was fairly
61prosperous. The ship proved to be a good ship, the crew were capable seamen, and the captain thoroughly understood his
62business. But before we came the length of Treasure Island, two or three things had happened which require to be known.
63Mr. Arrow, first of all, turned out even worse than the captain had feared. He had no command among the men, and people
64did what they pleased with him. But that was by no means the worst of it, for after a day or two at sea he began to
65appear on deck with hazy eye, red cheeks, stuttering tongue, and other marks of drunkenness. Time after time he was
66ordered below in disgrace. Sometimes he fell and cut himself; sometimes he lay all day long in his little bunk at one
67side of the companion; sometimes for a day or two he would be almost sober and attend to his work at least passably.
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