Treasure Island

CHAPTER XXXIVAND LASTTHE next morning we fellearly to work, for the transportationof this great mass of gold near a mile byland to the beach, and thence three miles by boat tothe Hispaniola, was a considerable task for so small a numberof workmen. The three fellows still abroad upon the islanddid not greatly trouble us;a single sentry on the shoulder ofthe hill was sufficient to insure us against any sudden onslaught,and we thought, besides, theyhad had more thanenough of fighting.Therefore the work was pushed on briskly. Gray andBen Gunn came and went with the boat, while the rest,duringtheir absences, piled treasure on the beach.Two of thebars, slung in a rope's-end, made a good load for a grownman one that he was glad to walk slowly with. For mypart, as I was not much use at carrying, I was kept busyallday in the cave, packing the minted money into breadbags.It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for thediversity of coinage, but so much largerand so much morevaried that I think I never had more pleasure than in sortingthem. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, andLouises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and ae-