`` I did think I could have trusted Hands , '' added the captain . `` And to think that they 're all Englishmen ! '' broke out the squire . `` Sir , I could find it in my heart to blow the ship up . '' `` Well , gentlemen , '' said the captain , `` the best that I can say is not much . We must lay to , if you please , and keep a bright lookout . It 's trying on a man , I know . It would be pleasanter to come to blows . But there 's no help for it till we know our men . Lay to , and whistle for a wind , that 's my view . '' `` Jim here , '' said the doctor , `` can help us more than anyone . The men are not shy with him , and Jim is a noticing lad . '' `` Hawkins , I put prodigious faith in you , '' added the squire . I began to feel pretty desperate at this , for I felt altogether helpless ; and yet , by an odd train of circumstances , it was indeed through me that safety came . In the meantime , talk as we pleased , there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely ; and out of these seven one was a boy , so that the grown men on our side were six to their nineteen . PART THREE -- My Shore Adventure 13 How My Shore Adventure Began THE appearance of the island when I came on deck next morning was altogether changed . Although the breeze had now utterly ceased , we had made a great deal of way during the night and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the south-east of the low eastern coast . Grey-coloured woods covered a large part of the surface . This even tint was indeed broken up by streaks of yellow sand-break in the lower lands , and by many tall trees of the pine family , out-topping the others -- some singly , some in clumps ; but the general colouring was uniform and sad . The hills ran up clear above the vegetation in spires of naked rock .
All were strangely shaped , and the Spy-glass , which was by three or four hundred feet the tallest on the island , was likewise the strangest in configuration , running up sheer from almost every side and then suddenly cut off at the top like a pedestal to XXXXX a statue on .
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