`` He was a seaman , '' said George Merry , who , bolder than the rest , had gone up close and was examining the rags of clothing . `` Leastways , this is good sea-cloth . '' `` Aye , aye , '' said Silver ; `` like enough ; you would n't look to find a bishop here , I reckon . But what sort of a way is that for bones to lie ? ` Tai n't in natur ' . '' Indeed , on a second glance , it seemed impossible to fancy that the body was in a natural position . But for some disarray -LRB- the work , perhaps , of the birds that had fed upon him or of the slow-growing creeper that had gradually enveloped his remains -RRB- the man lay perfectly straight -- his feet pointing in one direction , his hands , raised above his head like a diver 's , pointing directly in the opposite . `` I 've taken a notion into my old numbskull , '' observed Silver . `` Here 's the compass ; there 's the tip-top p ` int o ' Skeleton Island , stickin ' out like a tooth . Just take a bearing , will you , along the line of them bones . '' It was done . The body pointed straight in the direction of the island , and the compass read duly E.S.E. and by E. `` I thought so , '' cried the cook ; `` this here is a p ` inter . Right up there is our line for the Pole Star and the jolly dollars . But , by thunder ! If it do n't make me cold inside to think of Flint . This is one of HIS jokes , and no mistake . Him and these six was alone here ; he killed 'em , every man ; and this one he hauled here and laid down by compass , shiver my timbers ! They 're long bones , and the hair 's been yellow . Aye , that would be Allardyce . You mind Allardyce , Tom Morgan ? ''
`` Aye , aye , '' returned XXXXX ; `` I mind him ; he owed me money , he did , and took my knife ashore with him . ''
Allardyce E.S.E. Island Leastways Merry Morgan Pole Silver numbskull second