About two o'clock in the morning
It was but a small strain on his imagination to remove Jackson 's Island beyond eye-shot of the village , and so he `` looked his last '' with a broken and satisfied heart . The other pirates were looking their last , too ; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island . But they discovered the danger in time , and made shift to avert it . About two o'clock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island , and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight . Part of the little raft 's belongings consisted of an old sail , and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions ; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather , as became outlaws . They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest , and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper , and used up half of the corn `` pone '' stock they had brought . It seemed glorious sport to be feasting in that wild , free way in the virgin forest of an unexplored and uninhabited island , far from the haunts of men , and they said they never would return to civilization .