The pirates were in possession of the house and stores : there was the cask of cognac , there were the pork and bread , as before , and what tenfold increased my horror , not a sign of any prisoner . I could only judge that all had perished , and my heart smote me sorely that I had not been there to perish with them . There were six of the buccaneers , all told ; not another man was left alive . Five of them were on their feet , flushed and swollen , suddenly called out of the first sleep of drunkenness . The sixth had only risen upon his elbow ; he was deadly pale , and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded , and still more recently dressed . I remembered the man who had been shot and had run back among the woods in the great attack , and doubted not that this was he . The parrot sat , preening her plumage , on Long John 's shoulder . He himself , I thought , looked somewhat paler and more stern than I was used to . He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission , but it was bitterly the worse for wear , daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood . `` So , '' said he , `` here 's Jim Hawkins , shiver my timbers ! Dropped in , like , eh ? Well , come , I take that friendly . '' And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask and began to fill a pipe . `` Give me a loan of the link , Dick , '' said he ; and then , when he had a good light , `` That 'll do , lad , '' he added ; `` stick the glim in the wood heap ; and you , gentlemen , bring yourselves to ! You need n't stand up for Mr. Hawkins ; HE 'LL excuse you , you may lay to that . And so , Jim '' -- stopping the tobacco -- `` here you were , and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John . I see you were smart when first I set my eyes on you , but this here gets away from me clean , it do . '' To all this , as may be well supposed , I made no answer . They had set me with my back against the wall , and I stood there , looking Silver in the face , pluckily enough , I hope , to all outward appearance , but with black despair in my heart . Silver took a whiff or two of his pipe with great composure and then ran on again .
`` Now , you see , XXXXX , so be as you ARE here , '' says he , `` I 'll give you a piece of my mind .
'LL Jim John attack buccaneers first left plumage sixth tobacco