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Ben Gunn scares the crew by shouting Captain Flint's last words from the forest, making the pirates believe that Flint's ghost is haunting the island. They find a skeleton with its arms oriented toward the treasure, unnerving the party. Silver and the others set out with the map, taking Jim along as a hostage. In the morning, Livesey arrives to treat the wounded and sick pirates and tells Silver to look out for trouble once he's found the site of the treasure. Silver tells Jim that when everyone found the ship was gone, Captain Flint's party had agreed to a truce whereby they take the map and allow the besieged party to leave. Jim goes ashore and returns to the stockade, where he is horrified to find only Silver and the pirates. Hands helps Jim beach the schooner in the northern bay, then attempts to kill Jim with a knife, but Jim shoots him dead with two pistols. He boards the Hispaniola, and encounters the pirate Israel Hands, who had been injured in a dispute with one of his companions. Jim makes his way to the Hispaniola and cuts the ship from its anchor, allowing the ship to drift along the ebb tide. The mutineers arm themselves, and Smollett's loyal men take refuge in an abandoned stockade, where the mutineers attack them. He meets a marooned pirate named Ben Gunn, who is also a former member of Flint's crew. They plan to mutiny after the salvage of the treasure, and to murder the captain and the loyal men.Īrriving at the island, Jim joins the shore party and they begin to explore. While hidden in an apple-barrel, Jim overhears a conversation among the Hispaniola's crew which reveals that many of them are pirates who had served on Captain Flint's ship, the Walrus, with the most notable being the ship's one-legged cook Long John Silver.
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They set sail on Trelawney's schooner, the Hispaniola, under Captain Smollett.
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Livesey and the squire John Trelawney, and they decide to make an expedition to the island, with Jim serving as a cabin boy. Jim shows the map to the local physician Dr. Jim and his mother escape with a mysterious packet from Bones' sea chest, which is found to contain a map of an island on which the infamous pirate Captain Flint hid his treasure. Pew and his accomplices attack the inn, but are routed by excise officers, and Pew is trampled to death. Shortly thereafter, Bones suffers a stroke and dies. A blind beggar named Pew then visits the inn, delivering a summons to Bones called "the black spot". A former shipmate named Black Dog confronts Bones and they get into a fight, causing Black Dog to flee. He tells the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". In the mid-18th century, an old sailor named Billy Bones lodges at the rural Admiral Benbow Inn on England's Bristol Channel.
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Jim Hawkins hiding in the apple-barrel, listening to the pirates Since its publication, Treasure Island has had significant influence on depictions of pirates in popular culture, including such elements as deserted tropical islands, treasure maps marked with an "X", and one-legged seamen with parrots perched on their shoulders. It has since become one of the most often dramatized and adapted of all novels, in numerous media. It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co. The novel was originally serialised from 1881 to 1882 in the children's magazine Young Folks, under the title Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It is considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys ) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of " buccaneers and buried gold".