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Later in the day, the pirates didn’t attack again, so Dr. Livesey was able to attend to his patients, Hunter, Captain, and the pirate who got short at the wall of the fort. Out of those three, Captain Smollett recovered, he was badly injured but his injury was not fatal. Abraham Gray was astonished to see that Dr.Livesey had walked into the forest, outside of their protected shelter, and I assumed that he was off to meet Ben Gunn. As days passed, I began to feel more restless and cooped up, so I decided to fill my pockets up with biscuits, grab a couple pistols, and head off on my own. I knew I would get in trouble for doing this, but I decide to sneak out to the white boulder to see if Ben Gunn’s boat was still tied up when no one was looking. I didn’t even realize that I had left only two physically able men to guard the fort, Abraham and the Squire but I made up my mind and decided to go. As I strolled down the beach, in the distance, I saw Long John holding his parrot, and laughing with the crew members. Of his crew, two of them enter a rowboat and set off for the Hispaniola. Sure enough, I saw a little tent hidden near the rock with a tiny boat next to it. Then I had the idea of rowing out to the Hispaniola, and cutting the rope to the anchor and letting it float off at night. I waited until it was dead night, picked up the tiny boat, and set it on the ocean to row out to the Hispaniola . I found that Ben’s boat was light and floated well, but it was hard to maneuver it. Luckily the current was on my side and brought me next to the Hispaniola. After a while, I realized that cutting the rope when it was tight would pull me and my rowboat out of the water. Providentially, the current shifted the Hispaniola so the rope was sl... ... middle of paper ... ...od for myself. He drank for awhile before he started talking about how he would have been healed if Dr.Livesey was here. Then, I announced that I was the now the captain of the Hispaniola, and then I pulled down the Jolly Roger flag and threw it overboard. Hands offered to help me if I brought him, food, alcohol, and something to bandage his wound. I planned to sail to the North Inlet to beach the boat quietly; I didn’t want to go to Captain Kidd’s Anchorage, where the pirates were waiting. Israel agreed even though he knew he had no choice but to help me. I steered the boat to the north end of the island and then help Israel wrap up his stab wound on the thigh. I was happy to captured the ship so easily, and I was sure that my friends would forgive me for leaving the fort. Still, I was unsettled because Israel watched me like a hawk with a crafty smile

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