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"All's quiet now," the doctor said. "I'll see to the wounded."

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"Jim and I will make something to eat," the squire volunteered.

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We cooked outside in the hot sun, trying not to listen to the loud groans from the doctor's patients.

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Of the eight men who had fallen in the action, only three still breathed: Hunter, Captain Smollett, and one of the pirates shot by the doctor.

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The pirate died within hours. Hunter never regained consciousness and died the following day. The captain was luckier.

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"Job Anderson's bullet broke your shoulder blade and nicked your lung, but not badly," the doctor told him.

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"The second bullet tore some calf muscles, but you'll recover.

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For the next few weeks, don't walk or move your arm if you can help it."

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After eating, the squire and the doctor sat and talked beside the captain for a while.

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A little past noon, Dr. Livesey grabbed his hat and pistols, strapped on a cutlass, and put the map in his pocket.

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With a musket over his shoulder, he crossed the north side of the fence and set off briskly through the trees.

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Gray took his pipe out of his mouth when he saw the doctor go and said, "Is Dr. Livesey mad?"

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"No," I replied. "He's the sanest person I know."

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"Well," Gray said, "if <font color="#ffff00"><i>he's</i></font> not insane, then I am! I just saw him climb over the stockade."

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"He's probably going to see Ben Gunn," I said.

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"It's too bad Mr. Gunn wants people to 'come alone.'

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The doctor is enjoying the cool woods, while we're roasting inside this stockade!

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I hate the stink of blood and all these dead bodies around!"

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"Help me wash out the house," Gray said.

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We scrubbed the blood off the floor, and I also washed the cookware, but my disgust only grew stronger.

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I wanted to leave, but I knew they wouldn't let me go.

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So I decided to wait and slip out when nobody was watching.

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But I needed a good reason to leave my friends.

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"I'll go find Ben Gunn's boat," I told myself.

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I filled my pockets with biscuits so I wouldn't be hungry, and I took two pistols, gunpowder, and some bullets.

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While the squire and Gray helped the captain with his bandages, I bolted over the fence and into the trees.

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Before anyone noticed, I was far away.

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"I'll head east, so the pirates won't see me from the anchorage, and then I'll go south," I thought as I snuck through the tall woods.

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By late afternoon, I had come to the cool beach and was walking alongside the tumbling surf.

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When I was far enough south, I took cover in thick bushes and crept warily up a ridge near a bit of sandy land sticking out from the shore.

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I was right between the sea and the anchorage, which was protected from the force of the ocean by Skeleton Island.

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The <font color="#ffff00"><i>Hispaniola</i></font> was still and quiet, floating on an unbroken mirror of water, with the Jolly Roger hanging from her mast.

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I saw a familiar pirate sitting in a shore boat alongside the ship, talking and laughing with two men leaning over the ship's stern.

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"Long John Silver!" I whispered to myself.

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They were much too far away for me to overhear or see them clearly, but all at once, I heard the most horrid, unearthly screaming.

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"ARGH!  ARGH!"

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"What's that?" I thought, startled. But then I spotted the bright plumage of a bird perching on Long John's wrist.

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"Oh, it's just the parrot!" I sighed.

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Long John shoved off in the boat and rowed for shore.

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The two other pirates—one was the man with the red cap—stayed on the ship and went below.

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The sun set behind Spyglass Hill, fog rose, and the light began to fade.

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"I must hurry if I'm going to find Ben Gunn's boat," I told myself. "It's going to get dark soon."

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The white rock, visible above the trees, was about two hundred yards away, and I crawled on all fours among the bushes.

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By the time I touched the rock's rough sides, the area was hard to see clearly, but right below in a ditch, was Ben Gunn's boat.

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It was a very small, crooked structure of tough wood, covered with stretched goat skin.

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"I can't imagine a full-sized man in this," I muttered.

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There was one low seat, a kind of stretcher in the front, and a double paddle for propulsion.

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I had never seen such a boat; it looked as if it had been made by some ancient seaman, but it <font color="#ffff00"><i>was</i></font> light and portable.

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After having found Ben Gunn's boat, I should have returned to the stockade, but suddenly I had a great idea.

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"I'll cut the <font color="#ffff00"><i>Hispaniola</i></font> adrift!" I said to myself.

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The pirates, after the morning's disastrous attack, might pull up the anchor and sail away.

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"Long John left his men on the ship without a shore boat," I thought.

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"It'll be easy. The fog is covering everything.

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Tonight will be perfect for my plan!" I ate my biscuit and waited for dark.

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As daylight disappeared and absolute blackness settled over Treasure Island, I picked up Ben Gunn's boat.

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Only two points were visible on the landscape: one was the great fire,

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where the pirates were drinking in the swamp, and the other was a mere blur of light in the dark fog—the anchored ship's cabin window.

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The tide was out, and I sank in swampy sand to my ankles before I got to the water's edge.

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Wading in, and with some strength and skill, I set Ben Gunn's boat in the water.