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9. Powder and Arms36
TheHispaniola lay some way out. The captain seemed angry with everything on board.
“I don’t like this cruise,” said the captain. “I don’t like the men.”
“Possibly, sir, you may not like your employer, either?” said the squire.
“Stay a bit37,” said Dr. Livesey. “No use of such questions. I require an explanation. You don’t, you say, like this cruise, captain. Why?”
“I find that every man knows more than I do,” said the captain. “I learn we are going after treasure. I don’t like treasure voyages at all, and I don’t like them, when they are secret and when (begging your pardon, Mr. Trelawney) the secret has been told to the parrot.”
“Silver’s parrot?” asked the squire.
“It’s a way of speaking38,” said the captain.
“That is all clear, and true enough,” replied Dr. Livesey. “We take the risk, but we are not so ignorant as you think. Next, you say you don’t like the crew. Are they not good seamen?”
“I don’t like them, sir,” returned Captain Smollett.
“Well, now, tell us what you want, captain,” asked the doctor.
“They are putting the powder and the arms in the fore hold39,” said the captain. “Now, you have a good place under the cabin; why not put them there? I’ll tell you what I’ve heard myself,” continued Captain Smollett, “that you have a map of an island, that there’re crosses on the map to show where treasure is, and that the island lies —” And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly.
