Let 's have a go of the rum . '' `` Dick , '' said Silver , `` I trust you . I 've a gauge on the keg , mind . There 's the key ; you fill a pannikin and bring it up . '' Terrified as I was , I could not help thinking to myself that this must have been how Mr. Arrow got the strong waters that destroyed him . Dick was gone but a little while , and during his absence Israel spoke straight on in the cook 's ear . It was but a word or two that I could catch , and yet I gathered some important news , for besides other scraps that tended to the same purpose , this whole clause was audible : `` Not another man of them 'll jine . '' Hence there were still faithful men on board . When Dick returned , one after another of the trio took the pannikin and drank -- one `` To luck , '' another with a `` Here 's to old Flint , '' and Silver himself saying , in a kind of song , `` Here 's to ourselves , and hold your luff , plenty of prizes and plenty of duff . '' Just then a sort of brightness fell upon me in the barrel , and looking up , I found the moon had risen and was silvering the mizzen-top and shining white on the luff of the fore-sail ; and almost at the same time the voice of the lookout shouted , `` Land ho ! '' 12 Council of War THERE was a great rush of feet across the deck . I could hear people tumbling up from the cabin and the forecastle , and slipping in an instant outside my barrel , I dived behind the fore-sail , made a double towards the stern , and came out upon the open deck in time to join Hunter and Dr. Livesey in the rush for the weather bow . There all hands were already congregated . A belt of fog had lifted almost simultaneously with the appearance of the moon . Away to the south-west of us we saw two low hills , about a couple of miles apart , and rising behind one of them a third and higher hill , whose peak was still buried in the fog . All three seemed sharp and conical in figure . So much I saw , almost in a dream , for I had not yet recovered from my horrid fear of a minute or two before . And then I heard the voice of Captain Smollett issuing orders . The HISPANIOLA was laid a couple of points nearer the wind and now sailed a course that would just clear the island on the east . `` And now , men , '' said the captain , when all was sheeted home , `` has any one of you ever seen that land ahead ? ''
`` I have , sir , '' XXXXX Silver .
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