asked the captain , who was frowning to himself . `` Well , it 's doubtful , '' said Alan . `` I 'm more of a fighting man -LRB- as ye have seen for yoursel ' -RRB- than a sailor-man . But I have been often enough picked up and set down upon this coast , and should ken something of the lie of it . '' The captain shook his head , still frowning . `` If I had lost less money on this unchancy cruise , '' says he , `` I would see you in a rope 's end before I risked my brig , sir . But be it as ye will . As soon as I get a slant of wind -LRB- and there 's some coming , or I 'm the more mistaken -RRB- I 'll put it in hand . But there 's one thing more . We may meet in with a king 's ship and she may lay us aboard , sir , with no blame of mine : they keep the cruisers thick upon this coast , ye ken who for . Now , sir , if that was to befall , ye might leave the money . '' `` Captain , '' says Alan , `` if ye see a pennant , it shall be your part to run away . And now , as I hear you 're a little short of brandy in the fore-part , I 'll offer ye a change : a bottle of brandy against two buckets of water . '' That was the last clause of the treaty , and was duly executed on both sides ; so that Alan and I could at last wash out the round-house and be quit of the memorials of those whom we had slain , and the captain and Mr. Riach could be happy again in their own way , the name of which was drink . CHAPTER XII I HEAR OF THE `` RED FOX '' Before we had done cleaning out the round-house , a breeze sprang up from a little to the east of north . This blew off the rain and brought out the sun . And here I must explain ; and the reader would do well to look at a map . On the day when the fog fell and we ran down Alan 's boat , we had been running through the Little Minch . At dawn after the battle , we lay becalmed to the east of the Isle of Canna or between that and Isle Eriska in the chain of the Long Island . Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch , the straight course was through the narrows of the Sound of Mull .
But the captain had no chart ; he was afraid to trust his brig so deep among the islands ; and the wind serving well , he preferred to go by west of Tiree and come up under the southern coast of the great Isle of XXXXX .
Alan Canna Captain Island Mull Riach executed round-house unchancy yoursel