Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Title: Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: February 25, 2006 [EBook #120]
[This file last Updated: August 24, 2010] Language: English
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*** TREASURE ISLAND ***
Produced by Judy Boss, John Hamm and David Widger
TREASURE ISLAND
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Contents
TREASURE ISLAND PART ONE
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PART TWO
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PART THREE
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PART FOUR
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PART FIVE
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PART SIX
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34 THE OLD BUCCANEER
THE OLD SEA-DOG AT THE ADMIRAL BENBOW BLACK DOG APPEARS AND DISAPPEARS
THE BLACK SPOT THE SEA-CHEST
THE LAST OF THE BLIND MAN THE CAPTAIN'S PAPERS
THE SEA-COOK
I GO TO BRISTOL
AT THE SIGN OF THE SPY-GLASS POWDER AND ARMS
THE VOYAGE
WHAT I HEARD IN THE APPLE BARREL COUNCIL OF WAR
MY SHORE ADVENTURE
HOW MY SHORE ADVENTURE BEGAN
THE FIRST BLOW
THE MAN OF THE ISLAND
THE STOCKADE
HOW THE SHIP WAS ABANDONED THE JOLLY-BOAT'S LAST TRIP
END OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTING THE GARRISON IN THE STOCKADE SILVER'S EMBASSY
THE ATTACK
MY SEA ADVENTURE
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HOW MY SEA ADVENTURE BEGAN THE EBB-TIDE RUNS
THE CRUISE OF THE CORACLE I STRIKE THE JOLLY ROGER ISRAEL HANDS
"PIECES OF EIGHT"
CAPTAIN SILVER
IN THE ENEMY'S CAMP THE BLACK SPOT AGAIN ON PAROLE
FLINT'S POINTER
THE VOICE AMONG THE TREES THE FALL OF A CHIEFTAIN
AND LAST
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!
TREASURE ISLAND
PART ONE--The Old Buccaneer
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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
