`` You see the mounds ? I come here and prayed , nows and thens , when I thought maybe a Sunday would be about doo . It were n't quite a chapel , but it seemed more solemn like ; and then , says you , Ben Gunn was short-handed -- no chapling , nor so much as a Bible and a flag , you says . '' So he kept talking as I ran , neither expecting nor receiving any answer . The cannon-shot was followed after a considerable interval by a volley of small arms . Another pause , and then , not a quarter of a mile in front of me , I beheld the Union Jack flutter in the air above a wood . PART FOUR -- The Stockade 16 Narrative Continued by the Doctor : How the Ship Was Abandoned IT was about half past one -- three bells in the sea phrase -- that the two boats went ashore from the HISPANIOLA . The captain , the squire , and I were talking matters over in the cabin . Had there been a breath of wind , we should have fallen on the six mutineers who were left aboard with us , slipped our cable , and away to sea . But the wind was wanting ; and to complete our helplessness , down came Hunter with the news that Jim Hawkins had slipped into a boat and was gone ashore with the rest . It never occurred to us to doubt Jim Hawkins , but we were alarmed for his safety . With the men in the temper they were in , it seemed an even chance if we should see the lad again . We ran on deck . The pitch was bubbling in the seams ; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick ; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery , it was in that abominable anchorage . The six scoundrels were sitting grumbling under a sail in the forecastle ; ashore we could see the gigs made fast and a man sitting in each , hard by where the river runs in . One of them was whistling `` Lillibullero . '' Waiting was a strain , and it was decided that Hunter and I should go ashore with the jolly-boat in quest of information . The gigs had leaned to their right , but Hunter and I pulled straight in , in the direction of the stockade upon the chart . The two who were left guarding their boats seemed in a bustle at our appearance ; `` Lillibullero '' stopped off , and I could see the pair discussing what they ought to do . Had they gone and told Silver , all might have turned out differently ; but they had their orders , I suppose , and decided to sit quietly where they were and hark back again to `` Lillibullero . ''
There was a slight bend in the coast , and I steered so as to put it between us ; even before we landed we had thus lost sight of the XXXXX .
Hawkins Lillibullero Silver cannon-shot chapling gigs jolly-boat mutineers one quarter