`` Down , dog ! '' cries the captain . And the head popped back again ; and we heard no more , for the time , of these six very faint-hearted seamen . By this time , tumbling things in as they came , we had the jolly-boat loaded as much as we dared . Joyce and I got out through the stern-port , and we made for shore again as fast as oars could take us . This second trip fairly aroused the watchers along shore . `` Lillibullero '' was dropped again ; and just before we lost sight of them behind the little point , one of them whipped ashore and disappeared . I had half a mind to change my plan and destroy their boats , but I feared that Silver and the others might be close at hand , and all might very well be lost by trying for too much . We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the block house . All three made the first journey , heavily laden , and tossed our stores over the palisade . Then , leaving Joyce to guard them -- one man , to be sure , but with half a dozen muskets -- Hunter and I returned to the jolly-boat and loaded ourselves once more . So we proceeded without pausing to take breath , till the whole cargo was bestowed , when the two servants took up their position in the block house , and I , with all my power , sculled back to the HISPANIOLA . That we should have risked a second boat load seems more daring than it really was . They had the advantage of numbers , of course , but we had the advantage of arms . Not one of the men ashore had a musket , and before they could get within range for pistol shooting , we flattered ourselves we should be able to give a good account of a half-dozen at least . The squire was waiting for me at the stern window , all his faintness gone from him . He caught the painter and made it fast , and we fell to loading the boat for our very lives . Pork , powder , and biscuit was the cargo , with only a musket and a cutlass apiece for the squire and me and Redruth and the captain . The rest of the arms and powder we dropped overboard in two fathoms and a half of water , so that we could see the bright steel shining far below us in the sun , on the clean , sandy bottom . By this time the tide was beginning to ebb , and the ship was swinging round to her anchor .
Voices were heard faintly halloaing in the direction of the two gigs ; and though this reassured us for Joyce and XXXXX , who were well to the eastward , it warned our party to be off .
HISPANIOLA Hunter Joyce Lillibullero Redruth faintness jolly-boat oars palisade second