Treasure Island (1911)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

For other versions of this work, see Treasure Island.

Copyright, 1911, by

Charles Scribner's Sons

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Published September, 1911

"The Scribner Press", logo.

TO

LLOYD OSBOURNE,

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 to-day:

—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 I

THE OLD BUCCANEER

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Old Sea Dog at the "Admiral Benbow"	3
II.	Black Dog Appears and Disappears	11
III.	The Black Spot	19
IV.	The Sea-Chest	27
V.	The Last of the Blind Man	35
VI.	The Captain's Papers	42

Part II

THE SEA COOK

VII.	I go to Bristol	53
VIII.	At the Sign of the Spy-glass	59
IX.	Powder and Arms	66
X.	The Voyage	73
XI.	What I Heard in the Apple Barrel	80
XII.	Council of War	88

Part III

MY SHORE ADVENTURE

XIII.	How my Shore Adventure Began	97
XIV.	The First Blow	104
XV.	The Man of the Island	111

Part IV

THE STOCKADE

XVI.	Narrative Continued by the Doctor: How the Ship was Abandoned	23
XVII.	Narrative Continued by the Doctor: The Jolly-boat's Last Trip	130
XVIII.	Narrative Continued by the Doctor: End of the First Day's Fighting	136
XIX.	Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins: the Garrison in the Stockade	142
XX.	Silver's Embassy	150
XXI.	The Attack	157

Part V

MY SEA ADVENTURE

XXII.	How my Sea Adventure Began	167
XXIII.	The Ebb-Tide Runs	175
XXIV.	The Cruise of the Coracle	181
XXV.	I Strike the Jolly Roger	188
XXVI.	Israel Hands	195
XXVII.	"Pieces of Eight"	205

Part VI

CAPTAIN SILVER

XXVIII.	In the Enemy's Camp	215
XXIX.	The Black Spot Again	225
XXX.	On Parole	233
XXXI.	The Treasure Hunt—Flint's Pointer	242
XXXII.	The Treasure Hunt—The Voice Among The Trees	251
XXXIII.	The Fall of a Chieftain	259
XXXIV.	And Last	267

ILLUSTRATIONS

		FACING PAGE
Captain Bill Bones		4
	All day he hung round the cove, or upon the cliffs, with a brass telescope
Captain Bones Routs Black Dog		16
	One last tremendous cut which would certainly have split him to the chin had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow
Old Pew		38
	Tapping up and down the road in a frenzy, and groping and calling for his comrades
Jim Hawkins Leaves Home		58
	I said good-bye to mother and the cove
Long John Silver and Hawkins		76
	To me he was unweariedly kind; and always glad to see me in the galley
Preparing for the Mutiny		102
	Loaded pistols were served out to all the sure men
Ben Gunn		112
	I saw a figure leap with great rapidity behind the trunk of a pine

Captain Smollet Defies the Mutineers		138
	Then, climbing on the roof, he had with his own hand bent and run up the colors
The Attack on the Block House		162
	The boarders swarmed over the fence like monkeys
The Fight in the Cabin		178
	It showed me Hands and his companion locked together in deadly wrestle
Israel Hands		204
	"One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"
The Black Spot		226
	About half way down the slope to the stockade, they were collected in a group
The Hostage		244
	For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear
The Treasure Cave!		268
	I was kept busy all day in the cave, packing the minted money into bread-bags