Arizona republican., 1899-02-18

with the news that Jim Hawkins had sliu3ed into q boat and was gone ashore with the rest.
 1t had never occurred to us to doubt Jim Hawkins; 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. Weran on deck. The pitch was bubbling in the seams: the nasty stench Of the place turned me sick; if ever man slnelled fever and dysentery, it was in that abominablc anchorage. The six scoundrcls 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 whist ling "Lillibullero."
 Waiting was q strain; and it was de cided that Hunter and I 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 direction of the stockade upon the chart The two who were left guard ing their boats seemed in a hustle at our appearance; "Lillibullero" stopped off, and I could sec the pair discussing what they ought to bo. Had they gone and told Silver, all might have turned out differently; but they had their orders, I suppose, and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to ''Lillibullcro."
 There was a slight bend in the coast. and I steered so as to put it between us; even before we landed we had thus lost sight of the gigs. I jumped out, and came as near running as I durst, with big silk handkerchief under my hat for coolness' sake, and brace of pistols ready primed for safety.
 I had not gone 100 yards when came on the stockade.
 This was how it was: A spring of clear water rose almost at the top of a knoll. Well, on the knoll, and inclosing the spring, they had clapped stout log house, fit to hold two score people on pinch, and loop-holed for mus ketry on every side. All round this they had cleared a wide space. and then the thing was completed by a paling six feet high, without door or open ing, too strong to pull down without time and labor, and too open to shelter the besiegers. The people in the log house had them in every way; they stood quiet in shelter and shot the others like cartridges. All they want ed was a good watch and food; for, short of a complete surprise, they might have held the place against regiment.
 What particularly took my fancy was the spring. For. though we had a good enough place of it in the cabin of the "Hispaniola,' with plenty of arms and ammunition, and things to eat, and eX- cellent wines, there had been one thing overlooked-we had no water. l was thinking this over, when there came ringing over the island the cry of man at the point of death. I was not new to violent death-I have served his royal highness the duke of Cum berland, and got a wound myself at Fontenoy-but I know my pulse went dot and carry one. Jim Hawkins is gone," was my first thought.
 It is something to have been an old soldier I6ut more still to have been a doctor. There is no time to dilly-dally in our work. And so now I made up my mind instantly, and with no time lost
 
 board the jolly-boat.
 By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar We made the water fly; and the boat was soon alongside, and aboard the schooner.
 I found them all shaken, as was nat ural. The squire was sitting down, as white as q sheet, thinking of the harm he had led US to, the good soul! and one of the six forecastle hands was little better.
 There's a man. said Capt. Smollett, holding toward him, new to this work He came nigh-ha2d fainting, doctor, vixen he heard the cry. An other touch of the rudder and that man would join us.'
 told my plan to the captain, and be- tween us we settled on the details of it's accomplishment.
 We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin and the forecastIe, with three or four loaded muskets and q mattress for protection. Hunter brought the boat round under the stern port. and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, puskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac and my invaluable medicine chest.
 In the meantime the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the cockswain, who was the principal man on board
 MT. Hands" he said, ''here are two of us with brace of pistols each. If any enc of you six make a signal of any description, that mans dead"
 They were a good deal taken abacl1; and after q little consultation, one and all tumbled down the fore companion, thinking, no doubt, to take US on the rear. But when they saw Redruth waiting for them in the spared gal icrv, they went about ship at once, and q head popped cut cn deck
 Down, dog." cries the captain.
 And the head popped kack again; and q hot