It was she whom I had heard pecking at a piece of bark ; it was she , keeping better watch than any human being , who thus announced my arrival with her wearisome refrain . I had no time left me to recover . At the sharp , clipping tone of the parrot , the sleepers awoke and sprang up ; and with a mighty oath , the voice of Silver cried , `` Who goes ? '' I turned to run , struck violently against one person , recoiled , and ran full into the arms of a second , who for his part closed upon and held me tight . `` Bring a torch , Dick , '' said Silver when my capture was thus assured . And one of the men left the log-house and presently returned with a lighted brand . PART SIX -- Captain Silver 28 In the Enemy 's Camp THE red glare of the torch , lighting up the interior of the block house , showed me the worst of my apprehensions realized . The pirates were in possession of the house and stores : there was the cask of cognac , there were the pork and bread , as before , and what tenfold increased my horror , not a sign of any prisoner . I could only judge that all had perished , and my heart smote me sorely that I had not been there to perish with them . There were six of the buccaneers , all told ; not another man was left alive . Five of them were on their feet , flushed and swollen , suddenly called out of the first sleep of drunkenness . The sixth had only risen upon his elbow ; he was deadly pale , and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded , and still more recently dressed . I remembered the man who had been shot and had run back among the woods in the great attack , and doubted not that this was he . The parrot sat , preening her plumage , on Long John 's shoulder . He himself , I thought , looked somewhat paler and more stern than I was used to . He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission , but it was bitterly the worse for wear , daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood . `` So , '' said he , `` here 's Jim Hawkins , shiver my timbers ! Dropped in , like , eh ? Well , come , I take that friendly . '' And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask and began to fill a pipe .
`` Give me a loan of the link , XXXXX , '' said he ; and then , when he had a good light , `` That 'll do , lad , '' he added ; `` stick the glim in the wood heap ; and you , gentlemen , bring yourselves to !
Captain Dick attack briers broadcloth buccaneers first left pecking plumage