The Forrest City times., 1888-01-21
CHAPTER XVI.
NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR
 HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED.

CHAPTER XVI
 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR:
 HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED.
 1t was about half-past one-three bells in the sea phrase-that the two boats went ashore from the Hispaniola. The captain the squire, and were talking matters over in the cabin Had there been breath of wind, we should have fallen on tke six mu- tineers who were left aboard with us slipped our cable and away 10 sea- But the wind was wanting; and. to complete our helplessness. down came Hunter with the news that Jim Hawkins had slipped into 2 boat and had gone ashore with the rest
 1t never occurred to us to doubt Jim flaw kins; but we were alarmed for his safety. With the men in the temper they were in, it seemed an even chance if we should see the lad again. We ran on deck. The pitch was bubbling fin the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominabe anchorage. The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle; ashore we could see the gigs made fast and man sitting in each, hard by where the river runs in. One of them was whistling "Lillibullero."
 Waiting was strain; and it was decided that Hunter and 1 should go ashore with the jolly-boat, in quest of information.
 The gigs had leaned to their right; but Hunter and pulled straight in, in the drec- ton of the stockade upon the chart. The two who were left guarding their boats seemed in hustle at our appearance; "Lillibullero," stopped of, and l could see the pair discussing what they ought to do. Had they gone and told Silver. all might have turned out differently; but they had their orders, 1 suppose, and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to "LiIlibulero."
 There was a slight bend in the coast, and steered so as to put it between us; even be- fore we landed we had thus lost sight of the gigs. l jumped out. and came as near running as durst, with big silk handker. chief under my hat for coolness' sake, and brace of pistols ready prlmed for safety.
 I had not gone hundred yards when came on the stockade.
 This was how it was; a spring of cleai water rose almost at the top of knoll. Well, on the knoll, and inclosing the spring, they had clapped stout og-house. fit to hold two score people on pinch, and loop holed for musketry on every side. All round this they had cleared a wide space, and then the thing was completed by a pal ing six feet high. without door or opening, too strong to pull down without time and labor, and too open to shelter the beseigers. The people in the log-house had them in every way; they stood quiet in shelter and shot the others like cartridges. All they wanted was good watch and food; for, short of complete surprise, they might have held the place against a regiment
 What particularly took my fancy was the spring. For. though we had good enough place of 1t in the cabin of the Hispaniola, with plenty of arms and ammunition. and things to eat and excellent wines, there had been one thing overlooked-we had no wa ter. was thinking this over. when there came ringing over the island the cry of q man at the point of death. was not new to violent death-I had served his Royal Hlghness the Duke of Cumberland, and gol
 wound myself at Fontenoy-but 1 know my pulse went dot and carry one. Jim Hawkins is gone" was my first thought
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