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land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore
boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling
fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money. The
sight of so many good-humoured faces (especially the blacks), the
taste of the tropical fruits, and above all the lights that began to
shine in the town made a most charming contrast to our dark and
bloody sojourn on the island; and the doctor and the squire, taking
me along with them, went ashore to pass the early part of the
night. Here they met the captain of an English man-of-war, fell in
talk with him, went on board his ship, and, in short, had so
agreeable a time that day was breaking when we came alongside
the Hispaniola.

Ben Gunn was on deck alone, and as soon as we came on board
he began, with wonderful contortions, to make us a confession.
Silver was gone. The maroon had connived at his escape in a
shore boat some hours ago, and he now assured us he had only
done so to preserve our lives, which would certainly have been
forfeit if “that man with the one leg had stayed aboard.” But this
was not all. The sea-cook had not gone empty-handed. He had cut
through a bulkhead unobserved and had removed one of the sacks
of coin, worth perhaps three or four hundred guineas, to help him
on his further wanderings.

I think we were all pleased to be so cheaply quit of him.
Well, to make a long story short, we got a few hands on board,
made a good cruise home, and the Hispaniola reached Bristol just
as Mr. Blandly was beginning to think of fitting out her consort.
Five men only of those who had sailed returned with her. “Drink
and the devil had done for the rest,” with a vengeance, although,
to be sure, we were not quite in so bad a case as that other ship


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