`` They have begun to fight ! '' I cried . `` Follow me . '' And I began to run towards the anchorage , my terrors all forgotten , while close at my side the marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and lightly . `` Left , left , '' says he ; `` keep to your left hand , mate Jim ! Under the trees with you ! Theer 's where I killed my first goat . They do n't come down here now ; they 're all mastheaded on them mountings for the fear of Benjamin Gunn . Ah ! And there 's the cetemery '' -- cemetery , he must have meant . `` 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 XXXXX , but we were alarmed for his safety .
Abandoned Hawkins Hunter Theer first goatskins left nows one quarter