`` Billy took me in . There he laid , with penny-pieces on his eyes . '' `` Dead -- aye , sure enough he 's dead and gone below , '' said the fellow with the bandage ; `` but if ever sperrit walked , it would be Flint 's . Dear heart , but he died bad , did Flint ! '' `` Aye , that he did , '' observed another ; `` now he raged , and now he hollered for the rum , and now he sang . ` Fifteen Men ' were his only song , mates ; and I tell you true , I never rightly liked to hear it since . It was main hot , and the windy was open , and I hear that old song comin ' out as clear as clear -- and the death-haul on the man already . '' `` Come , come , '' said Silver ; `` stow this talk . He 's dead , and he do n't walk , that I know ; leastways , he wo n't walk by day , and you may lay to that . Care killed a cat . Fetch ahead for the doubloons . '' We started , certainly ; but in spite of the hot sun and the staring daylight , the pirates no longer ran separate and shouting through the wood , but kept side by side and spoke with bated breath . The terror of the dead buccaneer had fallen on their spirits . 32 The Treasure-hunt -- The Voice Among the Trees PARTLY from the damping influence of this alarm , partly to rest Silver and the sick folk , the whole party sat down as soon as they had gained the brow of the ascent . The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west , this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand . Before us , over the tree-tops , we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf ; behind , we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island , but saw -- clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands -- a great field of open sea upon the east . Sheer above us rose the Spyglass , here dotted with single pines , there black with precipices . There was no sound but that of the distant breakers , mounting from all round , and the chirp of countless insects in the brush . Not a man , not a sail , upon the sea ; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude . Silver , as he sat , took certain bearings with his compass .
`` There are three ` tall trees ' '' said he , `` about in the right line from Skeleton XXXXX .
Billy Cape Island Silver Spyglass Treasure-hunt buccaneer chirp death-haul penny-pieces