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That night, we were busy stowing things away, and many of the squire's friends came aboard to wish him a good voyage and a safe return.
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Members of the crew were making their preparations for the trip.
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Tim Cooper was making a last check of his sea bag, Abe Gray was carving a good-luck charm, and Alan Jenkins sat sewing a patch on his shirt.
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I was tired, but I didn't want to leave the deck.
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Everything was so exciting—from the captain's commands to the glimmer of the ship's lanterns.
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"Cook, give us a song," Alan cried cheerfully.
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"Aye, mates," Long John said. "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—"
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The crew joined in: "Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
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The song carried me back to the Admiral Benbow and the old captain, but soon the anchor was up, and the Hispaniola started to move away from the docks.
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Our adventure had begun!
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The voyage to Treasure Island was fairly uneventful, except Mr. Arrow turned out to be even worse than the captain feared.
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After a day or two, he started to appear on deck with hazy eyes, red cheeks, and other signs of drunkenness.
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Time after time, he was ordered below deck in disgrace.
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"Where does he get the rum?" Dr. Livesey wondered.
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"I've asked him," I said. "When he's drunk, he laughs at me, and when he's sober, he says he only drinks water.
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"He's useless as a first mate and is a bad influence on the men. At this rate, he'll soon be dead," the doctor predicted.
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So nobody was much surprised, or very sorry, when one dark night, he disappeared and was seen no more.
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"Overboard?" the captain said. "Well, that saves us the trouble of putting him in irons."
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But now we needed a first mate, so Job Anderson, took over the position, along with his regular job of supervising the masts and rigging.
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Mr. Trelawney volunteered to take watch, and Israel Hands, the helmsman—the man who steers the ship—was very helpful.
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Israel was an experienced seaman who could keep things running well, and he was a great confidant of Long John Silver too.
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Aboard ship, Silver hung his crutch on a rope around his neck so he could have both hands free to work.
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Even in stormy weather, Long John could walk back and forth from one side of the ship to the other using ropes he'd rigged across the deck.
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"He's no common man," Israel told me. "He's strong as a lion and can speak like an educated man when he wants to!"
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Long John was always glad to see me in the galley, which he kept spotlessly clean. His parrot, named Montego, was in a cage in one corner.
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"Come in and sit down, Hawkins," Long John would say. "Montego here is predicting a successful voyage."
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The parrot screeched, "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!"
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He pointed to Montego.
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"That bird," Silver said, "is maybe two hundred years old, Hawkins. They live almost forever. Only the devil has seen more wickedness."
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"Stand by, matey," Montego screamed.
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The cook gave the bird some sugar.
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"Be gone, sea rat!" the bird swore at him.
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Long John shook his head. "Argh, she's been around men who aren't very polite, so my poor innocent bird swears like a sailor.
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Of course, she has no idea what she's saying."
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Meanwhile, the squire and the captain were still not getting along.
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The squire despised the captain, and when the captain spoke to the squire, he was sharp and wasted no words.
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"I may have been wrong about the crew," the captain finally admitted to Trelawney one day. "They've behaved pretty well."
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And he liked the ship. "The Hispaniola responds to my directions better than any ship I've ever sailed, sir.
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But," he added, "we're not home yet, and I still don't like the voyage."
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The squire would angrily march up and down the deck.
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"If I hear any more complaints from that man," he said to the doctor, "I shall explode."
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The squire was overly generous to the crew, providing extra food at mealtimes and steamed pudding whenever someone had a birthday,
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and there was always a barrel of apples from which anyone could help himself.
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"Never knew good to come of it," the captain said to Dr. Livesey. "Spoil the crew, and you'll make devils. That's my belief."
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But good did come out of the apple barrel, because without it, we all might have perished by the hand of treachery.
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Everyone was in fine spirits one day, because we were near the end of the first part of our adventure.
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Just after sundown, as I headed toward my berth, I decided I wanted an apple.
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On deck, the men on watch were all busy looking out for the island.
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All was quiet except for the man at the helm, who was whistling while he watched the sails rippling in the wind,
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and the swish of the sea against the sides of the ship.
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There was scarcely an apple left, so I climbed into the barrel to reach the last ones.
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Sitting down at the bottom, eating in the dark with the ship rocking gently, I was on the verge of falling asleep.
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Suddenly, a heavy man sat down close by, and the barrel shook as he leaned his shoulders against it.
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I was about to jump up when I heard Long John's voice, but after listening a while, I wouldn't have shown myself for the entire world.
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I stayed there, trembling and listening, fearful and curious.
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Within moments, I realized the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.