1 Ship gone, neck gone--that's the size of it.
2 You, Livesey, are ship's doctor; I am admiral.
3 She was at the fishing up of the wrecked plate ships.
4 Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship Was Abandoned.
5 None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship.
6 These crosses stand for the names of ships or towns that they sank or plundered.
7 But I am responsible for the ship's safety and the life of every man Jack aboard of her.
8 You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy.
9 I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.
10 I was monstrously touched--so would you have been--and, out of pure pity, I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook.
11 "I was engaged, sir, on what we call sealed orders, to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me," said the captain.
12 Thither we had now to walk, and our way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations.
13 You wish us to keep this matter dark and to make a garrison of the stern part of the ship, manned with my friend's own people, and provided with all the arms and powder on board.
14 THE HISPANIOLA lay some way out, and we went under the figureheads and round the sterns of many other ships, and their cables sometimes grated underneath our keel, and sometimes swung above us.
15 I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.
16 How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.
17 The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude, soundings, names of hills and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores.
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