At every jump of the schooner , red-cap slipped to and fro , but -- what was ghastly to behold -- neither his attitude nor his fixed teeth-disclosing grin was anyway disturbed by this rough usage . At every jump too , Hands appeared still more to sink into himself and settle down upon the deck , his feet sliding ever the farther out , and the whole body canting towards the stern , so that his face became , little by little , hid from me ; and at last I could see nothing beyond his ear and the frayed ringlet of one whisker . At the same time , I observed , around both of them , splashes of dark blood upon the planks and began to feel sure that they had killed each other in their drunken wrath . While I was thus looking and wondering , in a calm moment , when the ship was still , Israel Hands turned partly round and with a low moan writhed himself back to the position in which I had seen him first . The moan , which told of pain and deadly weakness , and the way in which his jaw hung open went right to my heart . But when I remembered the talk I had overheard from the apple barrel , all pity left me . I walked aft until I reached the main-mast . `` Come aboard , Mr. Hands , '' I said ironically . He rolled his eyes round heavily , but he was too far gone to express surprise . All he could do was to utter one word , `` Brandy . '' It occurred to me there was no time to lose , and dodging the boom as it once more lurched across the deck , I slipped aft and down the companion stairs into the cabin . It was such a scene of confusion as you can hardly fancy . All the lockfast places had been broken open in quest of the chart . The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp . The bulkheads , all painted in clear white and beaded round with gilt , bore a pattern of dirty hands . Dozens of empty bottles clinked together in corners to the rolling of the ship . One of the doctor 's medical books lay open on the table , half of the leaves gutted out , I suppose , for pipelights . In the midst of all this the lamp still cast a smoky glow , obscure and brown as umber . I went into the cellar ; all the barrels were gone , and of the bottles a most surprising number had been drunk out and thrown away . Certainly , since the mutiny began , not a man of them could ever have been sober .
Foraging about , I found a bottle with some brandy XXXXX , for Hands ; and for myself I routed out some biscuit , some pickled fruits , a great bunch of raisins , and a piece of cheese .
Hands Israel first fro left main-mast pipelights right teeth-disclosing whisker