And the amounts increase , you see , as he rose in rank . '' There was little else in the volume but a few bearings of places noted in the blank leaves towards the end and a table for reducing French , English , and Spanish moneys to a common value . `` Thrifty man ! '' cried the doctor . `` He was n't the one to be cheated . '' `` And now , '' said the squire , `` for the other . '' The paper had been sealed in several places with a thimble by way of seal ; the very thimble , perhaps , that I had found in the captain 's pocket . The doctor opened the seals with great care , and there fell out the map of an island , with latitude and longitude , soundings , names of hills and bays and inlets , and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores . It was about nine miles long and five across , shaped , you might say , like a fat dragon standing up , and had two fine land-locked harbours , and a hill in the centre part marked `` The Spy-glass . '' There were several additions of a later date , but above all , three crosses of red ink -- two on the north part of the island , one in the southwest -- and beside this last , in the same red ink , and in a small , neat hand , very different from the captain 's tottery characters , these words : `` Bulk of treasure here . '' Over on the back the same hand had written this further information : Tall tree , Spy-glass shoulder , bearing a point to the N. of N.N.E. Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E. Ten feet . The bar silver is in the north cache ; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock , ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it . The arms are easy found , in the sand-hill , N. point of north inlet cape , bearing E. and a quarter N. J.F. . That was all ; but brief as it was , and to me incomprehensible , it filled the squire and Dr. Livesey with delight . `` Livesey , '' said the squire , `` you will give up this wretched practice at once . Tomorrow I start for Bristol . In three weeks ' time -- three weeks ! -- two weeks -- ten days -- we 'll have the best ship , sir , and the choicest crew in England . Hawkins shall come as cabin-boy . You 'll make a famous cabin-boy , Hawkins .
You , XXXXX , are ship 's doctor ; I am admiral .
Bristol England French Hawkins J.F. Livesey Spy-glass days hummock soundings