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Now , however , the bo ` sun set-to upon them , washing and binding them up , and for dressings he made use of some of the oakum which we had with us , binding this on with strips torn from the roll of spare duck , which had been in the locker of the boat . For my part , seizing this chance to make some examination of my wounded toe , the which , indeed , was causing me to limp , I found that I had endured less harm than seemed to me ; for the bone of the toe was untouched , though showing bare ; yet when it was cleansed , I had not overmuch pain with it ; though I could not suffer to have the boot on , and so bound some canvas about my foot , until such time as it should be healed . Presently , when our wounds were all attended to , the which had taken time , for there was none of us altogether untouched , the bo ` sun bade the man whose fingers were damaged , to lie down in the tent , and the same order he gave also to him that was bitten in the arm . Then , the rest of us he directed to go down with him and carry up fuel ; for that the night had shown him how our very lives depended upon a sufficiency of this ; and so all that morning we brought fuel to the hill-top , both weed and reeds , resting not until midday , when he gave us a further tot of the rum , and after that set one of the men upon the dinner . Then he bade the man , Jessop by name , who had proposed to fly a kite over the vessel in the weed , to say whether he had any craft in the making of such a matter . At that , the fellow laughed , and told the bo ` sun that he would make him a kite that would fly very steadily and strongly , and this without the aid of a tail . And so the bo ` sun bade him set-to without delay , for that we should do well to deliver the people in the hulk , and afterwards make all haste from the island , which was no better than a nesting place of ghouls .