“‘In an hour’s time, hard though the work was, it was finished, as far as the digging and hiding went.
“‘The next thing, however, was to take our bearings. This I managed to do most perfectly, partly by written descriptions, and partly by drawings of rocks on the sea-shore, and by measuring the distance inwards to the trees.
“‘It was dark before we left the shore, and I was rejoiced when a rain-storm came on, because I knew it would completely obliterate all our trail, so that not even a redskin would be able to find it.
“‘I gave Morgan the papers I had made, and he placed them in the locker on top of which he slept.
“‘But Morgan, as soon as he came on board, would not permit the men to go forward, and I was a little astonished, and I’m sure the poor fellows were, to find that they were placed in a prison cabin right abaft the captain’s own cabin.
“‘They had a plentiful supper handed in to them by Morgan himself, as well as a huge can of rum and another of water.
“‘We got up anchor, and stood out to sea immediately: for the wind had gone round, and was now fair for Jamaica; and as we had no great wish to encounter the Don, we took advantage of it.
“‘But now comes the horror which for ever after steeled my heart against the monster Morgan.
CHAPTER VIII.
“A DEED OF DREADFUL NOTE”—ALL SAIL FOR THE ISLAND OF GOLD.
“In the dead vast and middle of the night.”—Shakespeare.