When Dick returned , one after another of the trio took the pannikin and drank -- one `` To luck , '' another with a `` Here 's to old Flint , '' and Silver himself saying , in a kind of song , `` Here 's to ourselves , and hold your luff , plenty of prizes and plenty of duff . '' Just then a sort of brightness fell upon me in the barrel , and looking up , I found the moon had risen and was silvering the mizzen-top and shining white on the luff of the fore-sail ; and almost at the same time the voice of the lookout shouted , `` Land ho ! '' 12 Council of War THERE was a great rush of feet across the deck . I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the forecastle , and slipping in an instant outside my barrel , I dived behind the fore-sail , made a double towards the stern , and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter and Dr. Livesey in the rush for the weather bow . There all hands were already congregated . A belt of fog had lifted almost simultaneously with the appearance of the moon . Away to the south-west of us we saw two low hills , about a couple of miles apart , and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill , whose peak was still buried in the fog . All three seemed sharp and conical in figure . So much I saw , almost in a dream , for I had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two before . And then I heard the voice of Captain Smollett issuing orders . The HISPANIOLA was laid a couple of points nearer the wind and now sailed a course that would just clear the island on the east . `` And now , men , '' said the captain , when all was sheeted home , `` has any one of you ever seen that land ahead ? '' `` I have , sir , '' said Silver . `` I 've watered there with a trader I was cook in . '' `` The anchorage is on the south , behind an islet , I fancy ? '' asked the captain . `` Yes , sir ; Skeleton Island they calls it . It were a main place for pirates once , and a hand we had on board knowed all their names for it . That hill to the nor ` ard they calls the Fore-mast Hill ; there are three hills in a row running south ` ard -- fore , main , and mizzen , sir . But the main -- that 's the big un , with the cloud on it -- they usually calls the Spy-glass , by reason of a lookout they kept when they was in the anchorage cleaning , for it 's there they cleaned their ships , sir , asking your pardon . ''
`` I have a chart here , '' says Captain XXXXX .
Flint HISPANIOLA Hill Livesey Smollett fore-sail ho pannikin south-west third