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Treasure Island `
` by Robert Louis Stevenson `
` `
` `
` TREASURE ISLAND `
` `
` To `
` S.L.O., `
` an American gentleman `
` in accordance with whose classic taste `
` the following narrative has been designed, `
` it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, `
` and with the kindest wishes, `
` dedicated `
` by his affectionate friend, the author. `
` `
` `
` TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER `
` `
` If sailor tales to sailor tunes, `
` Storm and adventure, heat and cold, `
` If schooners, islands, and maroons, `
` And buccaneers, and buried gold, `
` And all the old romance, retold `
` Exactly in the ancient way, `
` Can please, as me they pleased of old, `
` The wiser youngsters of today: `
` `
` --So be it, and fall on! If not, `
` If studious youth no longer crave, `
` His ancient appetites forgot, `
` Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, `
` Or Cooper of the wood and wave: `
` So be it, also! And may I `
` And all my pirates share the grave `
` Where these and their creations lie! `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` CONTENTS `
` `
` PART ONE `
` The Old Buccaneer `
` `
` 1 THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW `
` 2 BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS `
` 3 THE BLACK SPOT `
` 4 THE SEA-CHEST `
` 5 THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN `
` 6 THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS `
` `
` PART TWO `
` The Sea Cook `
` `
` 7 I GO TO BRISTOL `
` 8 AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS `
` 9 POWDER AND ARMS `
` 10 THE VOYAGE `
` 11 WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL `
` 12 COUNCIL OF WAR `
` `
` PART THREE `
` My Shore Adventure `
` `
` 13 HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN `
` 14 THE FIRST BLOW `
` 15 THE MAN OF THE ISLAND `
` `
` PART FOUR `
` The Stockade `
` `
` 16 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
` HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED `
` 17 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
` THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST TRIP `
` 18 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
` END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING `
` 19 NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS: `
` THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE `
` 20 SILVER'S EMBASSY `
` 21 THE ATTACK `
` `
` PART FIVE `
` My Sea Adventure `
` `
` 22 HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN `
` 23 THE EBB-TIDE RUNS `
` 24 THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE `
` 25 I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER `
` 26 ISRAEL HANDS `
` 27 "PIECES OF EIGHT" `
` `
` PART SIX `
` Captain Silver `
` `
` 28 IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP `
` 29 THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN `
` 30 ON PAROLE `
` 31 THE TREASURE-HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER `
` 32 THE TREASURE-HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG `
` THE TREES `
` 33 THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN `
` 34 AND LAST `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` TREASURE ISLAND `
` `
` `
` `
` PART ONE `
` `
` The Old Buccaneer `
` `
` `
` `
` 1 `
` `
` The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow `
` `
` `
` SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these `
` gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole `
` particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning `
` to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the `
` island, and that only because there is still treasure not `
` yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ `
` and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral `
` Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut `
` first took up his lodging under our roof. `
` `
` I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came `
` plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following `
` behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, `
` nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the `
` shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and `
` scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut `
` across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him `
` looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he `
` did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that `
` he sang so often afterwards: `
` `
` "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- `
` Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" `
` `
` in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have `
` been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he `
` rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike `
` that he carried, and when my father appeared, called `
` roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought `
` to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering `
` on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs `
` and up at our signboard. `
` `
` "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a `
` pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" `
` `
` My father told him no, very little company, the more `
` was the pity. `
` `
` "Well, then," said he, "this is the berth for me. `
` Here you, matey," he cried to the man who trundled the `
` barrow; "bring up alongside and help up my chest. I'll `
` stay here a bit," he continued. "I'm a plain man; rum `
` and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up `
` there for to watch ships off. What you mought call me? `
` You mought call me captain. Oh, I see what you're at-- `
` there"; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on `
` the threshold. "You can tell me when I've worked `
` through that," says he, looking as fierce as a `
` commander. `
` `
` And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he `
` spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed `
` before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper `
` accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who `
` came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down `
` the morning before at the Royal George, that he had `
` inquired what inns there were along the coast, and `
` hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as `
` lonely, had chosen it from the others for his place of `
` residence. And that was all we could learn of our guest. `
` `
` He was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung `
` round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass `
` telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the `
` parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very `
` strong. Mostly he would not speak when spoken to, only `
` look up sudden and fierce and blow through his nose `
` like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about `
` our house soon learned to let him be. Every day when `
` he came back from his stroll he would ask if any `
` seafaring men had gone by along the road. At first we `
` thought it was the want of company of his own kind that `
` made him ask this question, but at last we began to see `
` he was desirous to avoid them. When a seaman did put `
` up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, `
` making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in `
`
` by Robert Louis Stevenson `
` `
` `
` TREASURE ISLAND `
` `
` To `
` S.L.O., `
` an American gentleman `
` in accordance with whose classic taste `
` the following narrative has been designed, `
` it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, `
` and with the kindest wishes, `
` dedicated `
` by his affectionate friend, the author. `
` `
` `
` TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER `
` `
` If sailor tales to sailor tunes, `
` Storm and adventure, heat and cold, `
` If schooners, islands, and maroons, `
` And buccaneers, and buried gold, `
` And all the old romance, retold `
` Exactly in the ancient way, `
` Can please, as me they pleased of old, `
` The wiser youngsters of today: `
` `
` --So be it, and fall on! If not, `
` If studious youth no longer crave, `
` His ancient appetites forgot, `
` Kingston, or Ballantyne the brave, `
` Or Cooper of the wood and wave: `
` So be it, also! And may I `
` And all my pirates share the grave `
` Where these and their creations lie! `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` CONTENTS `
` `
` PART ONE `
` The Old Buccaneer `
` `
` 1 THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW `
` 2 BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS `
` 3 THE BLACK SPOT `
` 4 THE SEA-CHEST `
` 5 THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN `
` 6 THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS `
` `
` PART TWO `
` The Sea Cook `
` `
` 7 I GO TO BRISTOL `
` 8 AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS `
` 9 POWDER AND ARMS `
` 10 THE VOYAGE `
` 11 WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL `
` 12 COUNCIL OF WAR `
` `
` PART THREE `
` My Shore Adventure `
` `
` 13 HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN `
` 14 THE FIRST BLOW `
` 15 THE MAN OF THE ISLAND `
` `
` PART FOUR `
` The Stockade `
` `
` 16 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
` HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED `
` 17 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
` THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST TRIP `
` 18 NARRATIVE CONTINUED BY THE DOCTOR: `
` END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING `
` 19 NARRATIVE RESUMED BY JIM HAWKINS: `
` THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE `
` 20 SILVER'S EMBASSY `
` 21 THE ATTACK `
` `
` PART FIVE `
` My Sea Adventure `
` `
` 22 HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN `
` 23 THE EBB-TIDE RUNS `
` 24 THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE `
` 25 I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER `
` 26 ISRAEL HANDS `
` 27 "PIECES OF EIGHT" `
` `
` PART SIX `
` Captain Silver `
` `
` 28 IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP `
` 29 THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN `
` 30 ON PAROLE `
` 31 THE TREASURE-HUNT--FLINT'S POINTER `
` 32 THE TREASURE-HUNT--THE VOICE AMONG `
` THE TREES `
` 33 THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN `
` 34 AND LAST `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` TREASURE ISLAND `
` `
` `
` `
` PART ONE `
` `
` The Old Buccaneer `
` `
` `
` `
` 1 `
` `
` The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow `
` `
` `
` SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these `
` gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole `
` particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning `
` to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the `
` island, and that only because there is still treasure not `
` yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__ `
` and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral `
` Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut `
` first took up his lodging under our roof. `
` `
` I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came `
` plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following `
` behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, `
` nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the `
` shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and `
` scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut `
` across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him `
` looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he `
` did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that `
` he sang so often afterwards: `
` `
` "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- `
` Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" `
` `
` in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have `
` been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he `
` rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike `
` that he carried, and when my father appeared, called `
` roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought `
` to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering `
` on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs `
` and up at our signboard. `
` `
` "This is a handy cove," says he at length; "and a `
` pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?" `
` `
` My father told him no, very little company, the more `
` was the pity. `
` `
` "Well, then," said he, "this is the berth for me. `
` Here you, matey," he cried to the man who trundled the `
` barrow; "bring up alongside and help up my chest. I'll `
` stay here a bit," he continued. "I'm a plain man; rum `
` and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up `
` there for to watch ships off. What you mought call me? `
` You mought call me captain. Oh, I see what you're at-- `
` there"; and he threw down three or four gold pieces on `
` the threshold. "You can tell me when I've worked `
` through that," says he, looking as fierce as a `
` commander. `
` `
` And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he `
` spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed `
` before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper `
` accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who `
` came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down `
` the morning before at the Royal George, that he had `
` inquired what inns there were along the coast, and `
` hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as `
` lonely, had chosen it from the others for his place of `
` residence. And that was all we could learn of our guest. `
` `
` He was a very silent man by custom. All day he hung `
` round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass `
` telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the `
` parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very `
` strong. Mostly he would not speak when spoken to, only `
` look up sudden and fierce and blow through his nose `
` like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about `
` our house soon learned to let him be. Every day when `
` he came back from his stroll he would ask if any `
` seafaring men had gone by along the road. At first we `
` thought it was the want of company of his own kind that `
` made him ask this question, but at last we began to see `
` he was desirous to avoid them. When a seaman did put `
` up at the Admiral Benbow (as now and then some did, `
` making by the coast road for Bristol) he would look in `
`